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- Conscious*
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by Conscious* » Wed Feb 25, 2004 5:19 pm
Originally posted by Syribo
108 wpm
I have a kid in my school that types at 128wpm.
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- Major SONAR
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by Major SONAR » Thu Feb 26, 2004 11:31 am
I'm sure most of you are aware that there are two primary keyboard layouts.
QWERTY (the one we all use today)
Dvorak (the faster/better one)
If you look at the history of the typewriter, you will see that the Dvorak keyboard layout was actually much faster than the QWERTY. The problem with the Dvorak layout is that the layout was TOO fast for the manual typewriter. The metal rods that actually typed the letters, would collide and jam. The inventors of the typewrites had to figure a way to SLOW the typist down, so they moved the keys around. That iswhy we have the QWERTY layout we use today.
There was a woman who worked for the typewriter company who would go around and show how superiour the Dvorak layout was than the Qwerty layout. She could type 180 WPM.
Back in the 70's (don't hold me to that) a large corporation (one of the baby Bells?) tried to switch to the Dvorak layout, but finally gave up because they had to retrain every secretary and then when the secretary left the company, they would have to relearn the Qwerty layout.
In the Dvorak layout the most commonly used keys would be under your fingers. This is not the case with the Qwerty layout.
So much for the short history lesson... BTW I usually type 60 WPM with 95%+ no errors.
QWERTY (the one we all use today)
Dvorak (the faster/better one)
If you look at the history of the typewriter, you will see that the Dvorak keyboard layout was actually much faster than the QWERTY. The problem with the Dvorak layout is that the layout was TOO fast for the manual typewriter. The metal rods that actually typed the letters, would collide and jam. The inventors of the typewrites had to figure a way to SLOW the typist down, so they moved the keys around. That iswhy we have the QWERTY layout we use today.
There was a woman who worked for the typewriter company who would go around and show how superiour the Dvorak layout was than the Qwerty layout. She could type 180 WPM.
Back in the 70's (don't hold me to that) a large corporation (one of the baby Bells?) tried to switch to the Dvorak layout, but finally gave up because they had to retrain every secretary and then when the secretary left the company, they would have to relearn the Qwerty layout.
In the Dvorak layout the most commonly used keys would be under your fingers. This is not the case with the Qwerty layout.
So much for the short history lesson... BTW I usually type 60 WPM with 95%+ no errors.
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