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by gxonatano 73 days ago
If you want to make a keyboard more efficient, QWERTY is a very poor choice. QWERTY was designed in the nineteenth century, for mechanical typewriters. It was designed to be inefficient, so that the typewriters wouldn't jam up. As a result, we have such features like: placing the E key such that you have to move your left hand to reach it. E is the most frequent letter of the alphabet for the English language, and putting it anywhere but the home row is nonsensical. What is on the home row instead? A semicolon.

What you've done here, amazingly, is made QWERTY twice as inefficient, by requiring two touches to register certain keys.

To summarize:

- QWERTY: Bad

- QWERTY Mini: Worse

- QWERTY Mini Pro: Still worse, but now costs you money

1 comments

I don’t know whether QWERTY is good or bad. But it’s clear that the most people use it. If QWERTY is like regular shoes, then QWERTY Mini is simply like rain boots for a rainy day. Good luck.