I believe it's a misconception that QWERTY was designed to slow down typing. > There’s some dispute over how and why Sholes and Glidden arrived at the QWERTY l

I believe it's a misconception that QWERTY was designed to slow down typing. > There’s some dispute over how and why Sholes and Glidden arrived at the QWERTY layout. Some historians have argued that it solved a jamming problem by spacing out the most common letters in English; others, particularly more recent historians, hold that it was designed specifically to help telegraphists avoid common errors when transcribing Morse code. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/origins-qwerty-keyboard-typewriter-180982726/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/origins-qwerty-key...