775: QWERTY Jan 21, 2017

When looking for keyboards to type in English, it would be difficult—though not impossible—to find anything other than the QWERTY model. This setup not that of the first typewriters, however; those were arranged in alphabetical order. Later on, as people became too quick at typing, QWERTY was introduced in order to separate some common letter pairings in order to slow people down from typing, and even shifted more of the common letters to the left side so as to disadvantage right-handed people. Other models that supposedly are better for typists have been introduced, most well know of which is Dvorak's keyboard which moves the more common letters and groups to easier-to-access locations. Many of the the tests that showed its superiority, however, were conducted by Dr. Dvorak himself, and many claim that these were biased, referring to more modern tests that show experienced QWERTY and Dvorak-keyboard user's speed to be about the same.