Re: OT: Old keyboard idea

From: Robert Redelmeier (redelm_at_ev1.net.invalid)
Date: 03/09/05 

Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 04:02:13 GMT

skearney@accessbee.com wrote:
> It has been said that the most common letters were taken off the
> home row of the first typewriter keyboard to slow down the typist
> and prevent jamming. On a Dvorak keyboard almost sixty percent
> of average text is typed from the home keys. Transposing the
> letters 'etni' with 'dfjk' would put more than 55% of text
> on the home keys, up from only 26% on the qwerty layout.
> Thats more than twice the text typed without lifting a finger.

Urban legend:
http://www.utdallas.edu/~liebowit/keys1.html

-- Robert

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