Monty's Gaming and Wireless Outlook - Issue 170
There´s nothing like a bit of anti-technology to show what how stupid capitalism really is. The QWERTY keyboard layout (named after the left-most letters in its upper row) was designed in 1873 to make typing as DIFFICULT as possible.
The reason for this was that early typists worked too fast and 1873 typewriters jammed if adjacent keys were struck too quickly. Ergo, the commonest letters are spread across the keyboard and concentrated on the left-hand side to make it difficult for right-handed people to construct a sentence.
More than 50 years later, trials showed an efficiently laid-out keyboard could double typing speeds by even the most cack-handed Luddite. By then, however, it was too late and the vested interests of the QWERTY production juggernaut had staved off all competiton and even convinced computer designers to adopt the system several decades later.
That´s not to say the system hasn´t been tested. In 1888, Frank McGurrin was the star typing pupil of the Shorthand and Typewriter Institute and he thrashed a non-QWERTY rival Frank McGurrin in a widely pulicised contest that received as much publicity as an Ali/Frasier fight did in the 1970s.
But I wonder how McGurrin would have fared with Finger Frenzy - the best game in the world. It couldn´t be easier. How fast can you type the alphabet on a QWERTY keyboard? My first attempt was 13 seconds, my second attempt eight seconds and now I´m hovering around the five second mark.
If some people find taking heroin somewhat morish, the same goes for this game. I´m going to be doing it all over the Christmas holiday. Finger Frenzy that is, not heroin.
Apparently the record is 1.5 seconds, so maybe QWERTY (and I still can´t ****ing type that word quickly) isn´t so dirty after all. Being a sad bloke with no mates, I tried to do the same thing with SMS on my mobile phone and it took me more than a minute.
Surely somebody out there can redesign this game for mobile? This is a mobile game that has the potential to make Tetris look like a passing trend. But hang on a moment, it appears Finger Frenzy is owned by Morpheme, one of the UK´s top mobile developers. Why isn´t this a mobile game already? Answers please, Matt Spall, the CEO of Morpheme.
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