On Fri, Apr 8, 2016, at 23:28, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > And how did it enable fast typing? By *slowing down the typist*, and thus > having fewer jams.
Er, no? The point is that type bars that are closer together collide more easily *at the same actual typing speed* than ones that are further apart - For Q to collide with P, they would have to both be nearly all the way to the platen at the same time, whereas Q can collide with A even a mere millimeter from the basket (or anywhere in between). I don't understand where this idea that alternating hands makes you slows you down came from in the first place... I suspect it's people who haven't really thought for a minute about the physical process of typing (to type "ec" you have to physically move your left hand, to type "en" your right hand can already be moving into place while your left hand presses the first key. The former is clearly slower than the latter.) This goes double for hunt-and-peck typing, where you have to move your whole hand to press _any_ two keys on the same hand. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
