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Typing on an old (purely) mechanical typewriter was similar - you couldn't type too fast, or the type levers would jam. But that was already mostly taken care o
by rob74 4y ago
Typing on an old (purely) mechanical typewriter was similar - you couldn't type too fast, or the type levers would jam. But that was already mostly taken care of by the longer travel of the keys...
- Bluecobra 4y agoI thought QWERTY was invented to avoid jams? I'm pretty sure you can still type fast on a manual typewriter. https://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2014/03/evolution-of-world-speed-typing-records.html https://oztypewriter.blogspot.com/2014/03/evolution-of-world...
- pessimizer 4y agoTo avoid jams by slowing the typist down, among other ways. The way you would speed up, I imagine, would be by knowing where all the keys were in relation to each other, and knowing whether you had more or less time between presses for the path to be cleared for the next. edit: I was great at jamming manual typewriters when I was a kid, because when I was unsure of the next character, I wouldn't release the previous key fast enough; I would rest on it for a fraction of a second. Bad habits.