There is no comma in the alphabet.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Repeat.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

you slid your finger across the keyboard to type the "alphabet", amirite?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

YYA!

by Anonymous 14 years ago

*enter nerd mode* the entire reason QWERTY keyboards exists is to be as inconvenient as possible (I'm not making this up), and doing something like that would entirely defeat the purpose. *exit nerd mode*

by Anonymous 14 years ago

*is always in nerd mode* Actually, QWERTY keyboards were designed to be more efficient because the most common letter combinations are separated, so the typewriter keys would not get jammed as often.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Well, I meant inconvenient as in as hard as possible to go fast enough to jam your keys.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

The typewriter keys got jammed because the mechanism used to type would be more likely to jam if two keys near each other were pressed in quick succession. By placing the keys on opposite sides of the keyboard, it allowed people to type faster with fewer key jams.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Which is what I meant by incovinient. It slows you down to reduce jams.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

It isn't slowing you down. You're alternating hands as much as possible so the mechanism doesn't jam as much. Once you get used to it, it's actually faster to type on a typewriter with the QWERTY keyboard than with an alphabetically arranged keyboard.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

That's the problem. It's, by design, the hardest combination to get used to. It does this to stop you from jamming keys.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

But once you're used to it, you type faster than you would on an alphabetical keyboard because there are fewer jams and your hands alternate as much as possible.

by Anonymous 14 years ago