Date: 26/1/05 05:49 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] robinbloke.livejournal.com
Not strictly true, well, at least as I understood it!

I thought the layout was to ensure that characters would be spaced out so that the hammers didn't hit each other - i.e. to ensure consequtive characters were as far apart as possible on average.

Wikipedia has a good entry.

Date: 26/1/05 09:30 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mazzarc.livejournal.com
that's correct Dr Penguin. I konw... I learned on a manual typewriter! Now this squizzle can do 80wmp accurately, 120wmp not accurately! On a QWERTY keyboard.

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