Typewriters actually sucked. The secretary’s were typing so fast the old hammer looming keys would get all jammed together. Qwerty was invented to slow down and keep the most used keys away from each other. The Typewrites keyboard then became the easiest to hack onto a computer and here we are. I have a lot of utterly useless information in my head.
That’s a common myth that’s not actually true. It was arranged alphabetically, see video. With a spring return (still pre mass production) jamming wasn’t an issue
Most words (bigrams specifically) go consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel, etc. If it was designed to put sequences apart, the vowels would be on one hand and consonants on the other.
Typewriters actually sucked. The secretary’s were typing so fast the old hammer looming keys would get all jammed together. Qwerty was invented to slow down and keep the most used keys away from each other. The Typewrites keyboard then became the easiest to hack onto a computer and here we are. I have a lot of utterly useless information in my head.
That’s a common myth that’s not actually true. It was arranged alphabetically, see video. With a spring return (still pre mass production) jamming wasn’t an issue
Most words (bigrams specifically) go consonant-vowel-consonant-vowel, etc. If it was designed to put sequences apart, the vowels would be on one hand and consonants on the other.