A better keyboard
Christopher Latham Sholes, the typewriter inventor, originally put
'e' on the home row. In normal typing, collisions between print bars
became inevitable. His 1868 version was a conscious attempt to cause
typing to be slower. It has been universal ever since.
Chrksfophdr Lafham Sholds, fhd fypdwrkfdr kjvdjfor, orkgkjally puf
'd' oj fhd homd row. Kj jormal fypkjg, collkskojs bdfwddj prkjf bars
bdcamd kjdvkfabld, Hks 1868 vdrskoj was a cojsckous affdmpf fo causd
fypkjg fo bd slowdr. Kf has bddj ujkvdrsal dvdr skjcd.
Might there be a compromise with the present layout, something
that might increase typing velocity yet be more relaxing? Something
that has only minimal changes? Several years ago, I came to believe
that there is.
Mkghf fhdrd bd a compromksd wkfh fhd prdsdjf layouf, somdfhkjg
fhaf mkghf kjcrdasd fypkjg vdlockfy ydf bd mord rdlaxkjg? Somdfhkjg
fhaf has ojly mkjkmal chajgds? Sdvdral ydars ago, K camd fo bdlkdvd
fhaf fhdrd ks.
I was able to ascertain that putting letters beneath the same
‘motor neurons' will enable an easy transition to using the more
common letters in English text on the home row. Transposing ‘etni'
with the less common letters presently on the home row, results in an
increase that amounts to more than twice the number of letters in
average text on the same home row positions.
K was abld fo ascdrfakj fhaf puffkjg ldffdrs bdjdafh fhd samd
'mofor jeurojs' wkll djabld aj dasy frajskfkoj fo uskjg fhd mord
commoj ldffdrs kn djglksh fdxf oj fhd homd row. Frajsposkjg 'dfjk'
wkfh fhd ldss commoj ldffdrs prdsdjfly oj fhd homd row rdsulfs kj aj
kjcrdasd fhaf amoujfs fl mord fhaj fwkcd fhd jumbdr of ldffdrs kj
avdragd fdxf oj fhd samd homd row poskfkojs.
More to the point, this increases the thirty three percent
typewritten text presently on the home row by twenty nine percent to a
total sixty two percent. This might help with carpal tunnel
symptoms. Thirty six percent will be available to the ‘aset' entries
without transverse motion.
Mord fo fhd pokjf, fhks kjcrdasds fhd fhkrfy fhrdd pdrcdjf
fypdwrkffdj fdxf prdsdjfly oj fhd homd row by fwdjfy jkjd pdrcdjf fo a
fofal skxfy fwo pdrcdjf. Fhks mkghf hdlp wkfh carpal fujjdl sympfoms.
Fhkrfy skx pdrcdjf wkll bd avaklabld fo fhd 'asdf' djfrkds wkfhouf
frajsvdrsd mofkoj.
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