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At the top of the page it is stated that the qwerty keyboard is the "de facto standard on computers, as of 2025". We are now in 2026 so the year just needs to be changed. Thanks Keyboardwarrior2006 (talk) 06:17, 15 January 2026 (UTC)
Spanish, Greek
[edit]I was sent here by this Wiki link, but there is no section about Spanish: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY#Spanish
The article mentions the Greek letters by dead keys, but no idea how, and the figure suggests only one minuscule---so I find using plural about 470% exaggerated. : ) ~2026-46488-8 (talk) 23:14, 21 January 2026 (UTC)
- I have fixed the article so that QWERTY#Spanish now works as designed. It refers you to List of QWERTY keyboard language variants, which I suspect is what you really want, see List of QWERTY keyboard language variants#Spanish and List of QWERTY keyboard language variants#Greek.
- The reference you describe to Greek in this article is about a specific type of keyboard, EurKEY: if you are interested, see that article. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 12:10, 12 February 2026 (UTC)
Left/right handedness claims?
[edit]> This is helpful for left-handed people but disadvantageous for right-handed people
Sounds like an opinion? Is there something to back this up? Maybe it's self evident but surely millions of people use keyboards well without some kind of bias. Anational (talk) 06:21, 11 June 2026 (UTC)
- Yes, good call. I have deleted it. 𝕁𝕄𝔽 (talk) 08:57, 11 June 2026 (UTC)
"ASDFG" listed at Redirects for discussion
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The redirect ASDFG has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2026 August 6 § Home row keys until a consensus is reached. Mathguy2718 (talk) 17:19, 6 August 2026 (UTC)
DHIATENSOR 70% claim
[edit]This is incorrect: "The early Blickensderfer's "Ideal" keyboard was also non-QWERTY, instead having the sequence "DHIATENSOR" in the home row, these 10 letters being capable of composing 70% of the words in the English language." 70% is a plausible letter frequency figure, but not even close for word frequencies.
When I first wrote this, I considered it more likely that the "[13]" source was misparaphrased instead of getting it wrong. Well, I just checked via the Internet Archive; the source is to blame for the error. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ~2026-47254-11 (talk) 02:08, 31 August 2026 (UTC)
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