Re: ASETNIOP Keyboard

From: Old Physics (skearney7_at_earthlink.net)
Date: 08/22/04 

Date: 22 Aug 2004 10:38:06 -0700

jimp@specsol-spam-sux.com wrote in message news:<cg8t3j$hqc$1@mail.specsol.com>...
> Old Physics <skearney7@earthlink.net> wrote:
> > ASETNIOP Keyboard
>
> > Different name, same idea.
> > By simply transposing dfjkl; with the letters etniop, a keyboard
> > would be made more than forty percent more efficient, 80% more
> > efficient for the letters transposed. Less transverse motion and more
> > common letters on the home row will result in greater speed, comfort
> > and fewer mistakes.
> > By keeping the letters under the same fingers you will find that
> > etnio and p will be easy to learn, e and t are each more common than
> > dfjkl; combined in normal english text. Dfjkl and ; are harder to get
> > used to, you will be hitting them in their old locations.
>
> > "Use this test as an exercise, inhibit transverse motion" will
> > come out
> > "Usd fhks fdsf as aj dxdrcksd, kjhkbkf frajsvdrsd mlfklj" on the
> > qwerty keyboard. using text without dfjkl and ; makes it easy to detect
> > mistakes as they will show up as etnio or p in the practice.
> > Christopher Latham Showles originally put e and probably t on the
> > home row under the middle and index fingers of the left hand. This
> > caused a jamming of the key bars on his mechanical typewriter, making
> > for a machine unfriendly typist. This led to our modern version,
> > patented in 1868. Maybe its time to go back to the original design again.
>
> > Stephen Kearney
>
> Have you any idea how many times people have pushed "more efficient"
> keyboard layouts only to discover nobody wants to relearn how to type?

    The Devorak keyboard is the only one I know of that has had any
traction. Asetniop simply replaces least common letters with most
common, under the same fingers. You can try it on your Qwerty.

    Fhdsd ard fhd fkmds fhaf fry mdj's fy;kjg
    Tlur sclrd aje sdvdj ard nusf trkdjes
    Fl bd lr jlf fl bd, ks fhaf a qudsfklj?
    Wd hloe fhdsd frufhs fl bd sdot dvkedjf: sikj clolr

    These are the times that try men's typing
    Four score and seven are just friends
    To be or not to be, is that a question?
    We hold these truths to be self evident: skin color

    It is difficult, but less so than any other alternative
alternative keyboard. It can be practised without reference to a
keyboard map. The fingers have a memory, just transposed. It would
be simple for a computer to replace letters typed on a QWERTY into
QWDRFY, and in the meantime make a neat secret code.

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