There is a move to abandon the QWERTY
keyboard on phones and computers. The QWERTY layout of the alphabet
has always been a bit of a mystery to me. I confess that I have
never bothered to find out why the letters were so arranged.
The QWERTY arrangement has been around
since 1878 and was designed mainly to stop typewriter 'arms' sticking
together when typists were typing too fast or using letters alongside
each other on the keyboard. When you take a good look at the QWERTY
keyboard, so called for the arrangement of the upper left hand row of
letters, one can see that it would appear that some perverse designer
has arranged the keys to frustrate two-finger pickers like me. Not
so.
This attack on the QWERTY keyboard is
aimed at simplifying two-thumbed texting on mobile devices. It won't
help me speed up when I get around to texting.
The non-QWERTY keyboard designed by a Queenslander
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