For a long time, I believed the story that they QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typing, because typing too fast would cause jams on old typewriters, but apparently it isn’t true.

Skip to 3:00 for the part that talks about this.

  • Nate Cox@programming.dev
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    15 hours ago

    I carry around a 3x5 split keyboard with Colemak-dh mapped via firmware. Because I, too, am absolutely useless at a qwerty keyboard now.