Re: Great SWT Program

On Jan 5, 1:22 pm, blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <blm...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There seems to be an unstated assumption here that all keypresses
take the same amount of time.

Unstated because uncontroversial and true. I've yet to see a keyboard
where any key took a different amount of a) force or b) vertical
travel to activate, except where the key in question was physically
broken or the keyboard was some weird nonstandard usually-easily-
avoided variety. Most usually, the odd key out on one of the latter
will be something you don't want to be too easy to type accidentally
anyway -- the only example to immediately come to mind is a keyboard
that had an actual *power button* on it, the pressing of which would
shut down the entire computer it was connected to(!), not just the
keyboard. Accident-proofing this by making it require extra effort to
trigger only made sense (and was done inadequately anyway). :P

and consider also different ways those N different keys could be
located (nearby versus scattered throughout the whole 100+-key
layout of a typical PC keyboard).

The beauty of the QWERTY layout is that it's so randomly jumbled that
no common English digraph is much faster to type than any other,
except, for some reason, "er".

It all averages out in the wash anyway.
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