QWERTY was not designed to intentionally slow typists down (was: Unicode normalisation [was Re: [beginner] What's wrong?])

[pyotr filipivich]

Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> on Sat, 09 Apr 2016 14:52:50
-0400 typed in comp.lang.python  the following:
>On Sat, 09 Apr 2016 11:44:48 -0400, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com>
>declaimed the following:
>
>>I don't understand where this idea that alternating hands makes you
>>slows you down came from in the first place... I suspect it's people who
>
>	It's not (to my mind) the alternation that slows one down. It's the
>combination of putting common letters under weak fingers and some
>combinationS that require the same hand/finger to slow one down.
>
>aspect		a is on the weakest left finger, with the s on a finger that
>many people have trouble moving independently from the middle finger (hmm,
>I seem to be okay moving the ring finger, but moving the middle finger
>tends to drag the ring with it). p is the weakest finger of the right hand.
>e&c use the same finger of the left hand, t is the strongest finger but one
>is coming off the lower-row reach of middle-finger c.
>
>deaf		is all left hand, and the de is the same finger... earth except
>for the h is also all left hand, and rt are the same finger.
>
>	I suspect for any argument for one side, a corresponding counter can be
>made for the other side. There are only 5.5 vowels (the .5 is Y) in
>English, so they are likely more prevalent than the 20-odd consonants when
>taking singly. Yet A is on the weakest finger on the weakest (for most of
>the populace) hand. IOU OTOH are in a fast three-finger roll -- and worse,
>IO is fairly common (all the ***ion endings).

	ASINTOER are the top eight English letters (not in any order, it
is just that "A Sin To Err" is easy to remember.
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