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Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 18:30:13 +1000
Subject: Re: Keyboard Layout: Dvorak vs Colemak: is it Worthwhile to Improve the Dvorak Layout?
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On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Tim Roberts <timr@probo.com> wrote:
> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>> =A0 =A0 =A0 Oh, there was an "inefficiency" in QWERTY -- but it only app=
lies to
>>fully manual typewriters, in which some of the more common letters were
>>placed under the weakest fingers -- to slow down key strokes enough to
>>reduce jamming multiple type blocks
>
> That's what I was referring to. =A0That's a very common belief, but it's
> nonsense.

Competing rumour: The layout was designed such that "typewriter" could
be typed out using only the top row, to improve demo speed by a factor
of three.

ChrisA