Re: OT: Path dependent keyboard

It still puzzles me why e and i, which would be placed on the home row
by their alphabetical order, were lifted off it. This was done before
Remmington got ahold of it so it must have been deliberate in the
original design. Reverse engineering would suggest that the benifit to
the machine can now be given back to the typist. Another poster
suggested that qwerty has a built in advantage because of its ubiquity,
everyone is a little bit familiar with it and this will detract from
the typing speed and accuracy of any other layout.
Keeping the letters under the same fingers takes advantage of this
familiarity and I think it will modestly increase the speed of a typist
in a matter of weeks with relatively little effort. I find the comfort
remarkable.

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