Re: Great SWT Program

In article <09a20333-c812-4814-9c3b-53b773e77983@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<bbound@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.

Actually pressing the key probably does take the same amount of
time, no matter where it is. *Finding and pressing* the key,
however -- are you seriously claiming that that takes the same
amount of time for all keys, independent of the user's, um,
"typing system"? I can assure you that it isn't true for me,
and I strongly suspect that most people trained in touch typing
can find and press one of the keys in the, um, "old" part of the
keyboard faster than they can find and press other keys.

[ snip ]

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".

"io"?

It all averages out in the wash anyway.

No idea what you're trying to say here. My claim is that for
a touch typist, typing N+m of the "right" keys (the ones he/she
can find without thinking about it) may be faster than typing N
of the "wrong" keys. This seems obvious to me, and ignored in
your previous posts. Maybe I've misunderstood something.

--
B. L. Massingill
ObDisclaimer: I don't speak for my employers; they return the favor.
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