Re: LF: Why is QWERTY so bad?

Subject: Re: LF: Why is QWERTY so bad?
From: Baer William Bradford <bwb@utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 21:20:14 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <19961128.200342.10542.16.that1guy@juno.com>

I knwo a guy who can type 40wpm on his TI-85. So I think that if you
practice enough it doesn't matter whether the keyboard is QWERTY or not.


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On Thu, 28 Nov 1996 that1guy@juno.com wrote:


> I know why! Because it's "Standardized" and you have a "keyboard and word
> processor" put two and two together and you have one mean lean cheating
> machine. You can QUICKLy and extremly EASILY type in the test, bring it
> home, and post it on every usenet newsgroup you can find. Get it? It's a
> way of preventing people from mass coping the test.
> 
> that1guy@juno.com
> 
> On Thu, 28 Nov 1996 20:55:34 -0500 (EST) Baer William Bradford
> <bwb@utkux.utcc.utk.edu> writes:
> >I still don't under stand what is so evil about QWERTY keyboards that
> >makes them not be allowed on standredized test. How does this give you 
> >an
> >advantage in MATH?
>

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