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*smacks forehead in anger* As always you are right. I was looking for the Any key, not the shift key. other ones near it like RETURN or ALT Hmmm on my keyboard (microsoft natural keyboard) ALT is two keys away from Shift. Return (enter) is just above the right hand Shift though. Q is next to W which is next to E which is next to R which is next to T but T is not next to Y because there is a big gap between them. So I obviously don't have a QWERTY keyboard anymore, do I? ;P I am still waiting for the day when I can go buy a keyboard which is logical. i.e. A next to B next to C next to D next to E next to F next to... etc. etc. It is late, bear with me, I might actually manage to make a point somewhere in this pos...
Did you know: The QWERTY keyboard was designed purposly to be difficult to use. The probelm originated when the keys of a certain brand of typewriters were getting stuck together when the user pressed them too fast. The only solution they found was to put commonly used keys far away from each other. The qwerty keyboard has been a standard ever since... :mad: (2b || !2b)
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Did you know: The QWERTY keyboard was designed purposly to be difficult to use. The probelm originated when the keys of a certain brand of typewriters were getting stuck together when the user pressed them too fast. The only solution they found was to put commonly used keys far away from each other. The qwerty keyboard has been a standard ever since... :mad: (2b || !2b)
Yup that is the truth. I remember hearing it for the first time and thinking that it was an urban legend or an old wives tale. Awhile back somebody actually began to sell an ABCDEFG layoutkeyboard but it never took off. The positioning of keys on a QWERTY keyboard has become so ingrained it is hard to change. Funnily enough apparently the most efficient keyboard is virtually the opposite of the QWERTY layout. Pretty logical if you think about it. As you said "put commonly used keys far away from each other", so reverse that and put commonly used keys close together and you find a keyboard inherently faster. Amazingly it is not an ABCDEFG layout which is the fastest. btw, do you right the stuff on Chappies? Did you know... :-D regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001
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Yup that is the truth. I remember hearing it for the first time and thinking that it was an urban legend or an old wives tale. Awhile back somebody actually began to sell an ABCDEFG layoutkeyboard but it never took off. The positioning of keys on a QWERTY keyboard has become so ingrained it is hard to change. Funnily enough apparently the most efficient keyboard is virtually the opposite of the QWERTY layout. Pretty logical if you think about it. As you said "put commonly used keys far away from each other", so reverse that and put commonly used keys close together and you find a keyboard inherently faster. Amazingly it is not an ABCDEFG layout which is the fastest. btw, do you right the stuff on Chappies? Did you know... :-D regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass Cape Town, South Africa "The greatest thing you will ever learn is to love, and be loved in return" - Moulin Rouge "In other words, the developer is dealing with an elephant, the accountant is dealing with a bunny rabbit." by Stan Shannon - 16/10/2001
Chappies? What are they? (2b || !2b)
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Did you know: The QWERTY keyboard was designed purposly to be difficult to use. The probelm originated when the keys of a certain brand of typewriters were getting stuck together when the user pressed them too fast. The only solution they found was to put commonly used keys far away from each other. The qwerty keyboard has been a standard ever since... :mad: (2b || !2b)
Actually, this is a myth promoted by the Dvorak keyboard's creator (and patent holder). http://www.independent.org/tii/news/liebowitz_economist.html -- Where are we going? And why am I in this handbasket?