Tradition says that there are two primary kinds of typists: touch-typists who are familiar enough with a keyboard’s layout to type without having to look at the keyboard while they type, and hunt-and-peck typists who must visually locate each key they want to hit. The vast majority of English-language keyboard users–be them touch-typists or hunt-and-peckers–type on keyboards that use the QWERTY layout. While this layout might have performed a specific function back in 1874 when it was originally patented,