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Marcin Wichary
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Marcin Wichary

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Writing a book about the history of keyboards: http://aresluna.org/shift-happens  · Design manager @figmadesign · Typographer · Occasional speaker · He/him

San Francisco, Calif.
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    1. Chris Messina‏Verified account @chrismessina 29 Aug 2019
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      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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      Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele
      That 1870s QWERTY keyboard you are using. Some folks thought there was a mechanical reason for the layout. Nope. Flamboyant typewriter sales people created it so they can type TYPEWRITER in one motion demonstrations to wow potential customers. https://www.quora.com/share/Why-was-the-QWERTY-keyboard-layout-invented-and-why-has-it-not-changed-9?ch=2&share=82866f69&srid=Pi3 …
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    2. Jordan Novet is on Signal!‏Verified account @jordannovet 29 Aug 2019
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      really @mwichary

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    3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Dec 2019
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      Not entirely. This article covers a bunch of good stuff, but has multiple problems in many crucial areas, too.

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    4. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Dec 2019
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      Yes, Prof. Neil Kay in his paper mathematically analyzed the likelihood of TYPEWRITER in one row being an accident, and he believed that it almost certainly wasn’t.

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    5. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Dec 2019
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      It is also true that Remington has had an immense and cunning sales force, and the success of QWERTY can be largely attributed to that.

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    6. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Dec 2019
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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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    7. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Dec 2019
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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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    8. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Dec 2019
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      Neil Kay and other people independently analyzed QWERTY alongside the mechanical principles of the typewriter, and showed how QWERTY was actually a very thoughtful and intentional design.

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      Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Dec 2019
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      The mechanical principles of how the typewriter was built is where the above article seems pretty confused (E and R next to each other as keys doesn’t mean E and R next to each other as typebars).

      7:11 PM - 21 Dec 2019
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        2. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Dec 2019
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          Likewise, touch typing is not necessary to attain high speeds; you can go pretty fast with hunt and pecking, too. Even before touch typing, there is evidence that the early typewriter was marketed to telegrapher operators that needed to match the existing telegraphy speeds.

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        3. Marcin Wichary‏ @mwichary 21 Dec 2019
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          Those speeds were high enough that typebar clashing would’ve been a problem from day one.

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