Keyboard Layout: Dvorak vs Colemak: is it Worthwhile to Improve the Dvorak Layout?

[Chris Angelico]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote:
> Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>       Oh, there was an "inefficiency" in QWERTY -- but it only applies to
>>fully manual typewriters, in which some of the more common letters were
>>placed under the weakest fingers -- to slow down key strokes enough to
>>reduce jamming multiple type blocks
>
> That's what I was referring to.  That's a very common belief, but it's
> nonsense.

Competing rumour: The layout was designed such that "typewriter" could
be typed out using only the top row, to improve demo speed by a factor
of three.

ChrisA