Productivity

In today’s post, I’ll discuss the major drawbacks of the keyboard layout we use every day. The QWERTY keyboard is familiar to everyone, and it’s the one we’ll be focusing on. If you’ve read the earlier post about typing comfort in Colemak vs QWERTY, this one will go deeper into two key flaws of the QWERTY layout that still impact us today. QWERTY Keyboard and the Typewriter Despite being separated by over a century, typewriters and modern keyboards look surprisingly similar. Two common characteristics stand out: ...

Start of typing journey The first computer appeared in our home about 20 years ago. It feels like it was in a completely different era—when the internet was for the privileged few, and hardly anyone had heard of workplace ergonomics. People certainly didn’t care about it, and the time spent in front of a computer was much shorter. The very first crucial skill back then was learning how to type… If you could do that, you were good. But if you could type fast—you were SOMEONE. It was all about having the skill, not how well you did it. And let’s be honest—no one cared about typing style. What mattered was speed and looking at the screen. 🙂 ...