Ok, here's the quick summary. The "QUERTY" keyboard is the one you're used to. It's named QUERTY because those are the keys along the top left row. The querty keyboard came into being with the typewriter. You know, the manual one that has physical keys that fly up and hit a ribbon in front of the page that transfers ink to the paper. Well the keys are arranged in a bowl shape and all aimed at the same spot. If you hit 2 keys at the exact same time they are going to meet on their way to the target and sort of jam together. That binds them and they don't fall back into place. So... this becomes an increasing problem the faster you type. Solution? Design the keyboard so that it impedes your typing speed. This is done with a whole lot of ergonomics and statistics as to the frequency and sequence that particular characters appear in the english language and the difficulty of reaching those keys in sequence. With computers and typing electrical characters you don't have the physical performance constraints of a typewriter. Dvorak designed a different keyboard. Different shape and different key placements and relative key positions to optimize ergonomics and speed. It never really caught on. Not because it wasn't a good idea, but because people couldn't/wouldn't switch.
Aaaahh!!! makes sence and i accually learned on a manual typewriter *ching* tick tick tick *ching* :rofl:
I used to be able to do about 75 to 80 words a minute on a manual typewriter and up to 120 on an electric typewriter. :blush:
haha, you have to use more than 1 finger... That was with the standard(?) typing test. I think you typed from a page of text for 5 minutes? and then subtracted 5 words for each typo.
yeah, something like that. i just wanted to see how fast i was because i was bored at work as usual. i use almost all my fingers btw. i just dont pay attention to my punctuation thats my main issue.....as you can see....haha. :bigwink:
never timed on the manual. keyboard was 55 at best. now im sitting at around 20ish maybe... typing got alot harder when your missing part of your left hand.
