In 1873, if you typed "E-D-C" quickly, the adjacent arms would clash. So, Christopher Sholes scrambled the alphabet to separate common letter pairs (like "TH" and "HE"). You currently type 60% of your English words on the (the hardest row to reach), simply because that’s where the old levers wouldn’t break.
We treat keyboards like running water. We turn on the tap (or place our fingers on the home row) and expect the words to flow. For most of us, that flow is dictated by QWERTY —the 150-year-old standard we never chose. switch keyboard layout
Are you brave enough to forget how to type, just so you can learn how to create ? Have you switched layouts? Are you a Dvorak zealot or a Colemak convert? Let me know in the comments below. In 1873, if you typed "E-D-C" quickly, the