So why did Sholes choose QWERTY?

所以肖尔斯为什么选择QWERTY呢？

The design Sholes patented in 1878 was basically QWERTY.

1878年拿到专利的肖尔斯设计基本上跟QWERTY键盘差不多。

Christopher Latham Sholes, one of the inventors of the typewriter, invented a new keyboard system to solve this problem.

打字机的发明者之一克里斯托弗莱瑟姆肖尔斯发明了一种新的键盘系统来解决这个问题。

Interestingly, Sholes didn't envision that typing would ever be faster than handwriting, which is around 20 words per minute.

有趣的是，Sholes 并没有预料到打字会比手写更快，后者大约是每分钟 20 个单词。

Regardless of the reason, the commercial success of Sholes' typewriter meant the competitor companies that soon followed duplicated his design.

不管出于什么原因，肖尔斯打字机的商业成功意味着紧随其后的竞争对手公司复制了他的设计。