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.
Not at all.
Honestly, if you think one finger swiping is faster and better than ten fingers on a keyboard I would suggest you spend some time leaning to type.
you know what’s funny? the qwerty layout for keyboards were designed to slow people down because mechanical typewritters couldn’t keep up with the typing speeds. It’s purposely slower, moving the most used keys out of the way.
One wonders why we haven’t created a new keyboard in all these years. maybe with the same physical layout so that it could just be a firm/software adjustment rather than physical.
Where did you get this non-sense?
The reason for the layout is to have letters that are commonly typed together on alternating hands as it is faster and also would prevent jamming in mechanical typewritters.
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
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would prevent jamming in mechanical typewritters
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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.
One wonders why we haven’t created a new keyboard in all these years.
Oh they have. There are quite a few different layouts, apparently the Dovarak is the fastest.
But qwerty has been in use for so long it would be impossible to change.
As a former sysadmin who hopped around to different machines to do stuff, I would hate it when I had to type on some developers’ computers, because they had set it up as Dvorak (vi on Dvorak is a special hell). Yes, it’s a more efficient keyboard as long as that’s the only machine you’re on. If you have to use different machines where most of the users are on QWERTY, you just use QWERTY.
DVORAK is a keyboard layout that you can enable via your OS and use with a QWERTY keyboard. It’s laid out with the most used keys on the homerow to reduce finger movement.
I’ve tried swapping to it a couple times. Problem is, you have to throw all of your established muscle memory in the trash to learn it. I kinda wish I’d learned it first in a sense, but QWERTY is so dominant that I’d be struggling anywhere I couldn’t change layouts.
Using keys to type is slow compared to swiping across alphabets
You’d have to be really bad at typing for that to be true.
No, complete opposite.
anything longer than a sentence is an absolute grind on the phone
Somebody, take away that person’s phone so that he/she won’t give new stupid ideas to tech giants
