Why Are Keyboards in QWERTY Arrangement? Typewriters, Keyboards, and Typing Explained.
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- This started out as a "how keyboards work" video, but there really isn't much to say about them, so I got off track and started talking about this.
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this is a good case study of how the substrate (mechanical system and its constraints) influence the user interface (layout of keys).
Take this abstraction and apply it to any other substrate or user interface (e.g. VOIP being audio, and having to list options sequentially for callers, and thus ordering the options based on what the VOIP party wants the caller to hear before other things - e.g. "take note as our options have changed. if you are calling about the most frequent thing, press 1")
Dude, you are such an excellent educator and entertainer.
Good vid as always. Keep up the good work
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Excellent explanation! Thank you.
Thank you for the clear explanation!
Great information 👏👏
Amazing. Thanks!
Amazing job
I am a typist and I didn't know any of that, so thank you. That makes a lot of sense and is very interesting.
A typist? If you don't mind telling, what day-to-day activities does your job entail? I've never met anyone who works as a typist, so I'm curious.
Thank you for the great video. Apart from the letters' placement, there is also the other symbols (!@#...etc) that are differently placed in different arrangements. I find it reasonable or at least convenient to use in the QWERTY arrangement as opposed to the German/Hungarian layout. I am not sure why but maybe I am just used to the QWERTY arrangement that I find the others weird.
Bro the german layout literally only flips two letters, everything else is the same
@@mucicafrajer9882 not at all it changes a whole load of shit
@@taze9092 wow no it doesn't I have it and many of my friends have the english layout and everything other than y/z is the same
@@mucicafrajer9882 ok I get you, you’re not talking about special characters only letters, my bad
you could have gotten used to any kooky layout first, and you'd find anything different from it weird.
Thank you. Great content as usual. Can you please explain keyboard from power supply to what happen when we press key.??? How many inputs given to key?
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I love that you used the word Antidisestablishmentarianism as your example word. it was a funny word in my house for a long time. I know what it means now but i haven't had the pleasure of meeting or finding people who use that word too.
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Quick question: Is there any reason why modern keyboards are still staggered? There is no mechanical reason for it obviously. Isn't it much more ergonomic to have keys one below the other but still in the same order?
simply because the stagger is the universal, and moving away from the universal is pretty hard
The short answer is that people got used to it. Same reason we still have QWERTY.
@@paper2222 it's really not. keyboard and laptop companies make different sized keys and different positioned keyboards all the time across different models of their own product lines.
@@gwho how many times have you seen another person in public using a matrix keyboard
Woww... Too much effort... 👏🏽🙌🏽
Good video
very good
That's great
damn never thought about it
what i know about Chinese is that almost every word in chinese has its own character and there are few character combinations that form another word that's why their keyboard is that big
You are greatly
What about the ball typewriter that I used in high school? That was the mid early 90's I used those.
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7:14 hey i use azerty!
Cool! Any insight into why it might be more effecient for French/Belgian?
@@H3Vtux
probably because Q and Z is much more common than A and W in French.
although it's sometimes quite annoying if i play a videogame and i have to change qzsd to wasd.
also M is switched places for some reason
Keyboards that looked like this! 7:55 😯 lol
Make a video on how keyboards work. Pls
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tsc, I just use my index and middle fingers, still need to master the black magic that is typing
6:54 You just drew a pp.
You should probably get that lump checked out.
That looks like a boat...
oh wow, the same word that breaks Steam features if you make it part of your username is used here at 3:14
yo but who put e and d next to each other? did the past tense not exist back then??
"I couldn't find anything specifically on why E and D were next to each other despite occuring next to each other often. Given all the things they had to consider there was no perfect layout, so it may have been a sacrifice worth making.
It's also worht noting that while i didn't go into it here so as not to be overwhelming, the number strikers are placed inbetween the middle row and lower row." is what he said to another comment that asked this thing
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1:00 that's not true if the conduit is much thinner than a key's width... which is the case in modern electronic keyboards.
I am from Georgia and when im typing on my language I just hold left shift and hit the key to change the letter. for example if I want to write letter "ს" (s in Georgian) I just hit S key, but if I want to write letter "შ" (sh in Georgian) I hit shift+S. im sure everyone knows this, idk why I wrote it lol.
I definitely didn't know that lol, it may seem like common knowledge to you but I've never heard of it
most mandarin keyboards use pinyin input which is a phonetic system, so the keyboards are actually qwerty style
"Antidisestablishmentarianism"
... great! Good to know that not only
we Germans are able to produce
insanely long words like that
famous "Donaudampfschiff-
fahrtsgesellschaftskapitän"...😊
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2:45 you did not talk about edc
i'm disappointed
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I couldn't find anything specifically on why E and D were next to each other despite occuring next to each other often. Given all the things they had to consider there was no *perfect* layout, so it may have been a sacrifice worth making.
It's also worht noting that while i didn't go into it here so as not to be overwhelming, the number strikers are placed inbetween the middle row and lower row.
i just use fingers that are free if the one that should be there next was on the last letter or is going to be on the next for example success i use my pointer finger for both c's but in current for example i use my middle finger... i dont even know how i do that i just did it that way naturually when learning how to use 10 fingers
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Unintended TL;DR: Technology destroys cultural norms.
dvorak might be the best reason being that you can write lol much faster with it
4:47
hard disagree. pinky inwards and down is MUCH easier and natural and faster than pointer finger up and out.
The reason why can be broken down into 3 dimensions.
inward vs outward,
down vs up,
which finger is naturally more controllable.
inward is easier than outward.
down is easier than up. (pushing key on the upper row actually involves extension muscles and then flexion. it's a two-fer, whereas downward is a one-fer in only flexion).
only index is easier than pinky.
on paper it's 2vs1 in favor of the pinky motion
. in practice, you have to weight each one as whole package, and even then Z is easier and faster than T.
it depends, some find it hard some find it easy.
they probably just picked one layout to make it universal.
just like i can type wsx and ujm said at 3:42 with ease cause i learned typing the "wrong" way so my muscle memory is different.
So, it's not QWERTY, it's actually QAZWSX
7:55 LOL
8:03 omg i'm so fkn glad coding wasn't pioneered by Chinese.
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Please cite your sources. The belief that QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typists is an urban myth. Professor Bill Hammack posted a video on his engineerguy channel in 2014 titled "Why the Dvorak keyboard didn't take over the world" that points out that it was human engineered. At 5:43, you imply that Dvorak was created for computers. However, August Dvorak created that layout in 1936.
I never said that QWERTY was chosen to slow the typist down.
I probably could have changed the wording at 5:43, though when scripting these out I have to think as much about making a script flow and feel digestible as I do giving *all* of the relevant information which would lead to a 3 hour video. For example I initially had a section explaining that the number strikers also seperate some of the keys but it felt overwhelming.
As far as why DVORAK didn't take over, the topic is heavily debated and people on both sides are very passionate, so I couldn't really come to a firm conclusion one way or the other. I personally couldn't imagine using dvorak, and I do believe the world record for WPM is held by a QWERTY typist, but it's only by like 5% or so.
@@H3Vtux the fastest dvorak typist currently is NoThisIsJohn on UA-cam. His record for an 1 minute test is 200-210 while the record just passed 250 with qwerty. I wouldn't call it 5%. by the way the record for Colemak is around 230.
Excellent explanation. Thank you!