For a long time, I believed the story that they QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typing, because typing too fast would cause jams on old typewriters, but apparently it isn’t true.

Skip to 3:00 for the part that talks about this.

  • bdonvrA
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    2 days ago

    You can pry Colemak from my cold dead hands

    Just don’t ask me to type on somebody else’s computer, because I physically cannot. I have to hunt and peck.

    • Nate Cox@programming.dev
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      2 days ago

      I carry around a 3x5 split keyboard with Colemak-dh mapped via firmware. Because I, too, am absolutely useless at a qwerty keyboard now.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        Same, I would’ve switched both at the same time but I was on iPhone at the time and it didnt have a Dvorak option. Now I’m not in pain when I type so no need to change anything