When I heard @BrianRoemmele explain this theory on a recent podcast it blew my mind.
Why QWERTY? So typewriter salesmen could type T-Y-P-E-W-R-I-T-E-R impressively fast in front of prospective buyers to sell more typewriters!!https://twitter.com/BrianRoemmele/status/1167061733124362240 …
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However, this article has very few footnotes – and the only one supporting evidence of the TYPEWRITER story is a pop science paper/book by Stephan Jay Gould – in which the anecdote itself is quoted as “perhaps apocryphal.”
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To jump from this to “TYPEWRITER in one row is the only reason the QWERTY is the way it is” is a really looooooong stretch.
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