I feel swipe to type should be an option on laptops. Using keys to type is slow compared to swiping across alphabets. Remove the physical keyboard and put a 6" to 10" lcd with touch input on it.

  • kava@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You guys are pretty much saying the same thing.

    keyboards were designed to slow people down … moving the most used keys out of the way

    • /u/FuglyDuck

    would prevent jamming in mechanical typewritters

    • /u/Kalash

    I’m not sure why the hostility calling it non-sense. It’s common knowledge QWERTY was created because typewriters frequently jammed when you were quickly typing characters that were close to each other. By spacing out the letters, they effectively slowed down the typing speed and made the machine more reliable to use.

    The reason for the layout is to have letters that are commonly typed together on alternating hands

    This is a feature of Dvorak. QWERTY basically randomly places the most commonly used letters randomly across the keyboard.

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      1 year ago

      You guys are pretty much saying the same thing.

      We’re saying the opposite thing. It was designed for typing faster and prevent jamming, not for preventing jamming by being intentionally slow.

      I’m not sure why the hostility calling it non-sense.

      Well, it is non-sense. But I wasn’t aware it was like a proper common misconception.