The real reasons for the qwerty keyboard

Aldebaran:
I don’t use qwerty either. I have a standard German keyboard, but that’s very similar to qwerty: the top row is qwertz (the y is in the bottom row, on the left of the x), and the umlauts ä, ö, ü have keys on their own. AFAIK those are the only differences to qwerty. I guess the letter frequency distributions of German and English are pretty much the same too.

Can anyone find a study where people WHO HAD NEVER TYPED were compared?

Just wondering, been looking for quite a while.