I've received quite a few emails asking how I make my videos, if you're interested in learning about it in a detailed course let me know here: greg-s-site-7f5d.thinkific.com/

@_bit_

6 ай бұрын

Thank you

@TIBE_

6 ай бұрын

thanks

@HGAdam83124

6 ай бұрын

Could you make a video about why apple does not have an easily accessible number row on their keyboard?

@tzabarpho.

6 ай бұрын

​@HGAdam83124 I think it's in his video "why the iPhone keyboard sucks"

It’s really cool to think that the main way we’ve type isn’t the most efficient and the world will never change it back

@Megaman.ExE7

6 ай бұрын

What's even more amazing is that the fastest typer in the world uses Qwerty. Signifying that ergonomics are truly subjective

@j4yd34d5

6 ай бұрын

@@Megaman.ExE7 if that same typist had learned a different layout like colemak and used it from the start they would likely be even faster than they are with qwerty. it signifies their talent, nothing else.

@tommytexter4054

6 ай бұрын

You could use the most efficient keyboard layout on either virtual touchscreen (which is very easy to do) or physical custom keyboard (which is also not that hard to do by just remap the key) But you would’t ! Bc u r just too lazy to change. And that is it.

@thebasketballhistorian3291

6 ай бұрын

It's not the most efficient but I think more efficient than alphabetical order. It's better to spread out frequently used keys so you can use all your fingers to access them rather than have frequently used keys cramped in parts of the keyboard.

@sigirtmac

6 ай бұрын

Yes, there is a Turkish-specific layout called “f keyboard” which significantly speeds up typing Turkish words however almost all of the Turkish speakers are using qwerty layout for daily usage. And i agree with you, world will never change it back. Formerly the F keyboard was the compulsory layout in government agencies but nobody used it and people just brought their own qwerty keyboard so I didnt see any F keyboards for years

This is the perfect video to be shown to children at schools around the world in either a history, or an IT class.

@K76yNVQHp4D5

6 ай бұрын

Or a computer class

@10MasterM

6 ай бұрын

@@K76yNVQHp4D5 That’s true, I suffer from a lack of proper English vocabulary.

they made the slowest combination so machines didn't get stuck. genius idea..

@TheDeathmail

6 ай бұрын

Not the slowest combination, but instead keeping the mechanical parts of the fasted combination farther apart. Once you get the muscle memory, then the order of the keys won't matter and won't effect your speed

@thebasketballhistorian3291

6 ай бұрын

Not the slowest but the most used sequences were spread apart so the hammers wouldn't cross. In my opinion, its faster to type if commonly used sequences are spread out so you could utilize all your fingers.

I was also hoping you would talk about other layouts like Dvorak and Colmak. Its amazing what layout people could come up with when no more jamming issues need to be considered.

@Chris_Adams1

6 ай бұрын

The other layouts were created for efficiency, but because typists were practiced and efficient enough with the qwerty, they never caught on. It was a point of argument that the Dvorak was the most efficient but it wasn’t accepted.

@babybirdhome

6 ай бұрын

It’s more complex than simple efficiency, too. While Dvorak or Colmak might be more mathematically efficient, it turns out that they’re also not the fastest because of human physiology, and they’re also very far from the healthiest. These “more efficient” keyboard layouts actually result in much more frequent and worse repetitive stress injuries because their more efficient layout requires many more slight and fine muscle movements - which, when performed at speed, only increases the damage done to the carpel tunnel in the wrists and results in more and worse injuries requiring more surgical interventions to correct. QWERTY has fewer of these because the “less efficient” layout results in fewer repetitive stress injuries. But by spreading out the keys, it also allows for a faster top speed in typing than Dvorak or Colmak allow for - for the same reason. Fine and subtle movements of the fingers cannot be made as quickly as larger and broader movements can, so despite the next keys being more likely to be close to where your fingers already are, this is only a benefit in the middle speeds with human hands typing - not at the bottom or top end of the performance spectrum. The world’s fastest QWERTY typists can easily outpace the world’s fastest Dvorak or Colmak typists. There are several of them who can type significantly over 300 WPM with 98% or greater accuracy. Barbara Blackburn was only able to manage 225 WPM for 15 seconds using Dvorak.

@dillanio9191

6 ай бұрын

I actually use Dvorak for typing on my PC, but I still use QWERTY on my phone. I had RSIs typing on QWERTY on PC for some reason, and my wrists were always sore, so I learned Dvorak, and now there is no such pain anymore... And two formats are like learning 2 languages, you don't forget the other too

@Chris_Adams1

6 ай бұрын

⁠​⁠@@dillanio9191 I am “ old school” and learned QWERTY on an IBM Selectric III. I am not sure how to learn a Dvorak keyboard to make a difference.

People often ask me why the Musitude notation system is arranged in alphabetical order rather than by adjacent keys. The reason is because people's minds follows the progression of the alphabet and also to distribute the keypresses between the two hands.

answer: typewriters cant handle typing too fast

@_bit_

6 ай бұрын

Thank you

@warrior2364

6 ай бұрын

Thats a stupid answer and its better to watch the video than to rely on comments like this. Delete this.

@balegdeh.

6 ай бұрын

and now we’re forever stuck with our qwerty and azerty keyboards

@lildyl5081

6 ай бұрын

@@_bit_you couldn’t watch a 2 minute video? jesus christ.

@_bit_

6 ай бұрын

@@lildyl5081 I watched it, but I was just thanking him since he summarized

If you look back on early computer keyboards the placement of other keys were pretty wild as well. (Similar to how different brands put volume and brightness keys in different places today).

It's also to be noted that outside of texting, on a bigger keyboard, alphabetical isn't going to be much better if at all... what really matters is muscle memory and the location of how the most used letters are put around

@sigiligus

6 ай бұрын

This fact seems to go unstated by people who say “qwerty is supposed to make it slower.” It wasn’t to “make it slower,” as this video says it was to reduce mechanical interferences. The alphabet is not arranged by most used letters or anything, and once you know by feel where every letter is it doesn’t even matter what the layout is.

Fun fact: not all keyboards are "QWERTY", here in France for example, the keyboards are "AZERTY" and the letter M is right next to the letter L.

@MrBelles104

6 ай бұрын

Is that the most prominent layout or is it at least a popular alternative? If you were to order a new keyboard, does it come with the keys arranged in AZERTY or QWERTY?

@bardz0sz

6 ай бұрын

@@MrBelles104 French would be AZERTY (with numbers being pressed WITH shift) but for example Swiss layout is QWERTZ, with regular numbers (Swiss keyboard is used for both German and French, some keys change depending on the language set on your computer)

@VincentBounce

6 ай бұрын

As French🇫🇷, these are the 10 reasons to use a QWERTY US/INTL keyboard instead of AZERTY: 1: Just select a US-INTL software profile in Windows/Mac to easily type French accented chars çéèà (é obtained by just pressing ' before e). On iPhone/Android, just long press E to obtain an éè. 2: QWERTY layout is hardware standard and native to all devices while AZERTY needs a software layer to swap keys. So QWERTY is immediately recognized and usable in web apps, games, new products, BIOS, firmware, folding keyboards... without any additional setup or configuration. 3: PCs and Macs have exactly the same QWERTY US/INTL layout. But PCs and Macs have a different AZERTY layout! So any French user has a headache when he switches from his PC to his Mac because these characters do not have the same position on AZERTY PC and AZERTY Mac: @#!=+-*_. By the way, it's even easier to use a PC keyboard on your Mac with a standard QWERTY US/INTL layout. 4: On QWERTY US/INTL, you have direct access to 0123456789 keys under functions keys, especially on laptops without NumPad, and on minimalist TKL keyboards, no matter whether CapsLock is On or Off. For example, you're less productive on a MacBook AZERTY, because you always waste time by pressing shift before any digit. 5: Easy to travel and work with international teams with QWERTY US/INTL. 6: One unique keyboard layout to set on all your devices, instead of permanently switching between QWERTY and AZERTY. 7: Very close layout to all non-US QWERTY keyboards such as UK/Canadian QWERTY. 8: You're now able to purchase any PC/Mac laptop and any customized/craft keyboard with a QWERTY US-INTL layout in all countries in the world, while you need to import AZERTY only from France. 9: WASD keys are the standard to control games (not ZQSD), so you can play games without any specific setup/configuration, or play beta/HTML5 versions of games that don't offer any keyboard setup. 10: It took me just 2 weeks to be as fluent in QWERTY as in AZERTY.

@imbrenojansen

6 ай бұрын

@@MrBelles104 if you were to walk into any store in France to buy a computer or a keyboard 99% of the cases they'll be AZERTY. For example, I wanted to buy a QWERTY MacBook at FNAC (a store similar to USA Walmart) and they only had keyboards in AZERTY, so I had to order it online at the official Apple website (where you are able to customize the computer and request for different keyboard layouts).

This was taught to us back in 1984 when I was in junior high school learning shorthand and typing. ❤

Incredible video. I had no idea!

Am I so old that there are already videos about what typewriters are? Damn.

Nicely video edits!

Meanwhile in Belgium and France we use Azerty instead of qwerty

@BartBe-ct1cu

6 ай бұрын

Meanwhile, in Germany, Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia and Switzerland, the traditional layout before QWERTY gained popularity was QWERTZ.

Wow I Love trivia and this is a great one 👊 Keep them coming 😆

Apple devices (and Linux and Windows) have options to just add about any keyboard lay-out. Word and sentence prediction will only speed it up.

Humanity's last chance of moving away from Qwerty was with the introduction of smartphones. I remember many tried to make input methods better suited for touchscreens, and some succeeded. But still, people wanted Qwerty and Qwerty is what we got. Developers stopped trying and abandoned alternative keyboards. I still type in the keyboard I got used to when I got my first smartphone. I can type fast with no errors and no autocorrect. I can type without looking at the screen and with a single hand, and I have access to numbers and special characters without switching screens. Still, this keyboard hasn't been updated in 4 year and I fear for the day it stops working and I have to return to bad old Qwerty.

I love the QWERTY keyboard. I grew up with it and I type super fast on a PC or Smartphone ❤

Try writing braille without knowing how to make each letter with only six keys for each of the six dots (making up letters and numbers as well as punctuation marks) and a spacebar, plus return carriage and a backspace and line space key.

I never questioned it but now I know.

As French🇫🇷, these are the 10 reasons to use a QWERTY US/INTL keyboard instead of AZERTY: 1: Just select a US-INTL software profile in Windows/Mac to easily type French accented chars çéèà (é obtained by just pressing ' before e). On iPhone/Android, just long press E to obtain an éè. 2: QWERTY layout is hardware standard and native to all devices while AZERTY needs a software layer to swap keys. So QWERTY is immediately recognized and usable in web apps, games, new products, BIOS, firmware, folding keyboards... without any additional setup or configuration. 3: PCs and Macs have exactly the same QWERTY US/INTL layout. But PCs and Macs have a different AZERTY layout! So any French user has a headache when he switches from his PC to his Mac because these characters do not have the same position on AZERTY PC and AZERTY Mac: @#!=+-*_. By the way, it's even easier to use a PC keyboard on your Mac with a standard QWERTY US/INTL layout. 4: On QWERTY US/INTL, you have direct access to 0123456789 keys under functions keys, especially on laptops without NumPad, and on minimalist TKL keyboards, no matter whether CapsLock is On or Off. For example, you're less productive on a MacBook AZERTY, because you always waste time by pressing shift before any digit. 5: Easy to travel and work with international teams with QWERTY US/INTL. 6: One unique keyboard layout to set on all your devices, instead of permanently switching between QWERTY and AZERTY. 7: Very close layout to all non-US QWERTY keyboards such as UK/Canadian QWERTY. 8: You're now able to purchase any PC/Mac laptop and any customized/craft keyboard with a QWERTY US-INTL layout in all countries in the world, while you need to import AZERTY only from France. 9: WASD keys are the standard to control games (not ZQSD), so you can play games without any specific setup/configuration, or play beta/HTML5 versions of games that don't offer any keyboard setup. 10: It took me just 2 weeks to be as fluent in QWERTY as in AZERTY.

No one here mentioned DVORAK

@jimmy_os

6 ай бұрын

Because no one uses it

@Eventualpine-g

6 ай бұрын

True, that kinda surprises me@@jimmy_os

@arjundureja

6 ай бұрын

A lot of keyboard enthusiasts use it

would be cool to see how you made the video!

I can’t believe there’s a video on this. We learned this in typing class- which means there are no more typing classes at a time when everyone has to type.

@SkullarkEcko

6 ай бұрын

“Typing class” most likely was a elective or add on activity. Not a main course for school education

@IceBlueLugia

5 ай бұрын

A typing class seems pretty odd. We had a full computer class that taught us how to use a computer, Microsoft office, typing skills, etc. I remember we had a whole chapter on the history of storage mediums and what the storage units mean, starting from bits. That seems a lot more comprehensive and useful overall.

I still remember a now ancient car GPS that my dad bought ages ago, which had an option to change keyboard to alphabetical layout. A weird thing to look at

I still think it's dumb that they don't have a period most of the time on the popup keyboard. You have to go into a sub-keyboard to get to the period. Which makes typing sentences take even longer having to hunt for the period.

@threecirclesstudio

6 ай бұрын

Hit the spacebar twice in a row quickly to make a period.

@thebasketballhistorian3291

6 ай бұрын

Both my Android and iOS devices always have a period key next to the space bar. 🤔

@IceBlueLugia

5 ай бұрын

@@threecirclesstudioThat’s a great tip but it still leaves out commas, which are almost as crucial

@Reioloshi

4 ай бұрын

@@thebasketballhistorian3291same

@joshuafox8563

4 ай бұрын

​@@IceBlueLugia Androids keyboard has the comma on the other side

Short answer: type writers had this layout so the keys wouldn’t jam up, and now everyone uses it. (I think, I didn’t watch the video, I just remember hearing about it around 1 week ago.)

Fantastic video & Brilliant editing! For a future video, I wanted to request about my biggest  Apple mystery ever - in that why does the 'Magic Mouse' even exist being so bad??

@mirzarizwanbaig9449

6 ай бұрын

Bcuz it'll make  money! 💰

Germans: established the ISO standard for QWERTY also Germans: use QWERTZ layout

apple explained slowly becoming tech explained. great video man.

Video request: Why KZread still has 144p playback 😂

I feel kind of sad whenever I think about how traditional yet not the most practical methods continue to be used. It is neat that computers at least support changing to Workman, Dvorak, etc within OS settings though.

we need more apple related stuff.

Nice!

Typo, the letter P is on the middle row of the keyboard instead of the top row. 0:52

I finally got Dvorak layout on android phone. You first have to install gboard (google keyboard) then configure language within gboard.

thanks

Why doesn’t Apple add the option for Dvorak keyboards? And yes I said keyboards, Dvorak, Dvorak Left Hand and Dvorak Right Hand. As someone with a disability who types one-handed using a Dvorak-L keyboard, I wish Apple would included it with the iPhone and iPad. And for those who said to use Siri/voice recognition, that doesn’t work well for someone who has a speech impediment as well. The “swipe” keyboard does help, but having a Dvorak-L option would mean I don’t have to switch between QWERTY and Dvorak based on the device I use. Also due to the lack of the Dvorak keyboard option by Apple, I use Microsoft computers over Apple.

Our German keyboards have the letters Y und Z swapped, so we read QWERTZ instead of QWERTY 😊

Hey... What about the DVORAK format that was used by apple many years ago ?

Standard keyboard explained

We can cover the it to learn how to type faster.

this is quite interesting

The letters for ‘typewriter’ appear on the top row, not sure whether this is a coincidence or an Easter egg

Video suggestion: Evolution of computers

This explanation is not correct. The Wikipedia entry on QWERTY cites a number of sources that "Contrary to popular belief, the QWERTY layout was not designed to slow the typist down, but rather to speed up typing". As for alternative systems, the Wikipedia entry on Dvorak (the major supposedly "improved" layout) states that "Dvorak's advantages are debated and relatively small"

The world should switch to the Dvorak or Norman keyboard layout due to the fact that the layouts can be easily switched between on modern computers.

I use the typewise keyboard. It looks a little different from the standard keyboard.

Still think it’s ridiculous we use a standard meant for touch-typing on a device where we hunt-and-peck

What about the AZERTY layout keyboard? I mean there's also DVORAK and all sorts of keyboard layouts.

‘Explained’ for a reason 🔥🙌

But do not forget there are still other kinds of keyboard layouts besides qwerty example the azerty keyboard

I would even doubt that you can type faster with an alphabetically arranged keyboard. Look, the main reason for the layout we know is that letters that often follow each other are far apart. If you were to put them together again, one hand or finger would often have to press several keys in succession (if you think of fast 10-finger typing), which I think would be much slower than with the familiar layout.

iPad 9 is here!

love how this video’s topic has zero relation to Apple lol

@blackassmagic

6 ай бұрын

He’s been running out of ideas for a while lmaoooo

@colt5189

6 ай бұрын

@@blackassmagic He's almost completely abandoned his channel. He used to periodically do livestreams, etc but stopped for some reason.

@Dmarcoot

6 ай бұрын

@@blackassmagicyour laughing at someone who has actually produced content. Wtf do you do?

Oh, that old key-jamming myth again. In fact, the very first keyboards were laid out in alphabetical order (I can think of nothing more ridiculous) on a transcription device Scholes was devising for telegraphers so they could save time instead of having to copy the message by hand. They had abandoned the piano-style keyboard previously tried and went to this staggard key arrangement. As they tested their new keyboard they got suggestions from the telegraphers about how to rearrange the letters to make it easier for them to enter the text. They weren't trying to hinder text input speed, they were trying to make it easier. If jamming was a real problem they could have fixed it without completely tangling up the user interface. As they perfected their general-purpose typewriter, they used the "qwe;ty" keyboard they had developed by working with the telegraphers. When they sold their wooden prototype to Remington, Remington swapped the locations of the semicolon key and the "R" key for their Model 1. Eventually, secretaries and other professional typists were trained to use the qwerty keyboard and it just never made sense to change it.

@IceBlueLugia

5 ай бұрын

Untrue. The story told in the video is accurate

@lorensims4846

5 ай бұрын

@@IceBlueLugia If the keys jam regularly how can anyone type fast? Why are E and R next to each other? T and H are not far apart, and neither are R and T, or T and Y. There are just too many examples like this to give any credit to the key-jamming story.

Interesting

i don’t even know the history of my discord display name until now 💀

So the QWERTY keyboard was the USB-C of its day? Got it 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤪🤪🤪

@AndyK.1

6 ай бұрын

Small and breaks a lot ?

Imagine listing names in Qwerty order: Quentin Wally Eden Richie Terry Yvonne Ursula Izzy Oscar Peter Ashley Sam Danny Fred Gemma Hailey James Keith Luke Zack Xavier Clinton Vivian Bonnie Nick Molly

isn't that incorrect? atomic frontier made a video on it a few days ago that had a lot more detail

But it should be very easy on a non mechanical key board to offer both options, so users could select on a mobile phone their preferred version.

Can we at least straighten out the columns? Moving our fingers up or down from the home row shouldn't require additional lateral adjustments (left & up, right & down)..

KZread TV search keyboard is still in alphabetical order and it frustrates me

can u love my comment Greg?

I once saw a guy in Community college use an "Australian Keyboard" on his iPhone (He's not from Australia and we were both in California) , why does Australia and England have a different layout than the U.S. if we all speak English?

Wow

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Also interesting that the word typewriter just happens to be on the top row 🤔

I like how Apple explained made a video about this, even though this isn't an apple thing lol

yeah but i don't know why some media apps on tv/console like youtube have keyboards in alphabetical order

Idk why the AZERTY keyboard hasent been mentioned

In Germany its the QWERTZ Keyboard

There was a little dog whose name is quarl a xylophone

What about the AZERTY keyboard?

Bro answered my biggest question

Sort answer: The layout prevented typewriters from jamming.

Because IBM‘s first keyboard

In society, inefficiency always wins

At least one video not related to Apple

Some countries in Europe use an “AZERTY” keyboard as default.

@AndyK.1

6 ай бұрын

Yes I was hoping I was going to learn something about azerty but the vid ended

@ludosys4903

6 ай бұрын

@@AndyK.1 I looked it up "azerty" was created to make it easier for French typists... I live in BEL a bilingual country and the Dutch speaking part like us also uses azerty...

👍🏻

Humans treasure convenience above anything, and anyone.

Yay.

Question: do you know why all apple products make the same charging sound, except the watch?

I'm the next big thing,after every genius that exists rn.Like the guy that's gonna invent a glass phone like the one from Henry Danger

And yet in my county Z and Y placed in reverse

Wassup, haven't watched you in a looong time

Next video idea why apple won't offer new coulers airpods

@BlaulichtspotterNRW

6 ай бұрын

Why should they?? White is good. Brown and blue... its good they just make white ones

increase your sound man, even at max in unable to hear clearly

Now talk about the Azerty layout 😂

Where is my Dvorak keyboard 😮?

People managed to get 80wpm on qwerty. Did the typewriters not get jammed at the speed?

It literally says “QWERTY” on your keyboard! 😂

What about "WE" \/"CV"/"AS"/"ER" (FATHER). Still adjacent keys

Please what is the real reason why iPhones don’t support radio .

Only on old Nintendo devices they are in alphabetical order

Azerty keyboard feats

i dont use a qwerty keyboard i use a qwertz keyboard