7/11/2023 0 Comments Qwerty keyboard layout prt sc![]() ![]() QWERTY is not the most efficient keyboard layout So when you hit the space, you're doing it at the exact time as 600,000 other people. From doing math, it turns out that in every 1/10th of a second on Earth, spacebar is hit 600,000 times. Without the space, it would be hardtoreadthisarticle, don't you think? According to this YouTube video by Vsauce, when you type, 18% of all keyboard hits goes to spacebar. Talking about the space, it's not only the longest key, but also the most used one. When you hit spacebar, 600000 people in the world did just the same ![]() In the result, japanese keyboards look like this: To do that switching, additional keys are required. Why? Because japanese keyboards require switching between latin/roman letters (called rōmaji) and japanese characters (called hiragana and kana). Space is the longest key on every keyboard, but in Japan the statistical Spacebar is much shorter than in any other place on Earth. It was established by ACNOR in the first canadian keyboard layout, which was later copied by computer manufacturers, including Apple for its French Canadian layout. The truth is, the icon graphically represent the Ctrl (Control) key and nothing more. It looks funny, because we usually tend to associate Canada with winter time (although it's the same stereotype that all Italians eat pasta only). It features the "snow mode" key, with snowflake icon next to Ctrl caption. The french canadian keyboard layout is used in french-speaking parts of Canada, mainly the Quebec region. But some keyboards in the world are really strange and look very different from what we are accustomed to. ![]() If you live in the United States, UK or - for example - Poland, your keyboard is most likely an ordinary QWERTY with nothing weird on it. We look at keyboard many times in a day and usually we don't think about how they work and why they look like they look. ![]()
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