• No, The Sholes layout was developed because the previous alphabetical layouts were easier to learn and show off to potential purchasers, but they were useless in practise. He reasoned that an effective keyboard required to place the most commonly used English letters in areas where they were simplest to strike, as well as be balanced between the hands to avoid jamming when neighbouring keys were hammered in fast succession.
• He invented a keyboard that accomplished precisely that, allowing typists to type at previously unheard-of speeds, as fast as their fingers and the mechanism could bear, using emerging research on letter frequency and a long series of studies.

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