the fact i can touch type/type without looking is so wild to me bc if you asked me to say the alphabet i’d have to do it w/the song but if you asked me to name the order of the keys from right to left i literally couldn’t do it like my fingers know where stuff is but my visual memory has zero clue and that freaks! me! out! the alphabet has no reason to be ordered like that!!! my fingers and my mind know two different alphabets!!!
no one tell op about musical instruments or sports
more seriously, here’s a fun fact: when typewriters were invented, there were several different prototypical keyboard key configurations, including one that was just the alphabet, in order. however, because typewriters can only be typed on at a certain speed (about 45-50 wpm) before typing too fast makes the keys jam together, our current dominant qwerty keyboard configuration became the industry standard back in the typewriter days specifically because it was designed to make no sense and made it harder to type quickly.
as the transition from typewriter to computer made the concept of forced difficulty of typing obsolete, people clung to the old configuration for the same reason so many shitty things are still around: because it’s how they’d always done things and it was what they were used to. there are keyboard configurations designed specifically for ease of use and speed, most notably dvorak, but most typists are still most comfortable with the muscle memory of good ol’ clunky qwerty.
signed,
your friendly neighborhood modern-day scribe who has to think about this stuff way too often (and who’s jammed every typewriter i’ve ever tried to use).
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