Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: QWERTY was not designed to intentionally slow typists down Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 21:17:54 +1200 Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <2796705.edb3E9ArW3@PointedEars.de> <1584744.4h7ToaqLat@PointedEars.de> <5705b9ef$0$1611$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <570748ec$0$1620$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <874mbcgfmd.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <753cdb8b-9f94-48d6-bc0d-589efba86afc@googlegroups.com> <8560vr627l.fsf_-_@benfinney.id.au> <570876f1$0$1619$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <1460217233.3804713.573755729.61D3FCF2@webmail.messagingengine.com> <57143ac0$0$1609$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <1460944909.3502334.581571497.197404E2@webmail.messagingengine.com> <57148b18$0$11112$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net hic6Euz4XiHBV3AO/kTK6Q6UkBS291Hu3rRZbrdCKB3olx9SJc Cancel-Lock: sha1:ss+Crt8QQ+67F+VeREhnpcIxPIs= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: <57148b18$0$11112$c3e8da3@news.astraweb.com> Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:107260 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > Even on a modern keyboard, out of the ten most common digraphs: > > th he in er an re nd at on nt > > only er/re use consecutive keys, Also keep in mind that E and R being adjacent on the keyboard does *not* mean they're adjacent in the type basket -- they're actually separated by two other characters (D and C). That's only one less than I and N (separated by U, J nd M). -- Greg