Abstract
This paper first points out the defects of the typewriter keyboard now in general use, then describes the design of a keyboard that overcomes these defects and is claimed to afford the greatest attainable ease in writing average English. This is accomplished by determining the optimum key assignments to minimize hard motions (and maximize easy motions), whence the apt name “MINIMOTION.” The present paper concludes with a discussion of the outlook for general adoption of the MINIMOTION keyboard. Appendices present statistical tabulations of the usage of single and adjacent letters in average English, convenient terminology for analyzing typewriter keyboards in respect to the motions required to write average English, and the comparative results of analyzing several keyboards. These appendices provide sufficient information that the basic statistics and the analysis methods can be applied to any keyboard.
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