why are the keys in computer keyboard not arranged alphabetically?

Answer 1

The keyboard layout puts the keys where you would use them the most. Believe it or not, it is designed for a right handed person, but the majority of your typing is done with the left hand. That way, the right hand is free to turn pages on a document that you might be typing from.

Take a look. The Q is way up and out of the way. You almost never hit that key. The vowels are coneveniently placed.

Blame the whole thing on Queen Mary.

Answer 2

The 1874 Sholes & Glidden typewriters established the QWERTY layout for the letter keys that is used nowadays in Anglophone countries for virtually all computer keyboards and the majority of other keyboards. Other nations using the Latin alphabet may use variants of the QWERTY layout, for example the French AZERTY layout.

It is generally acknowledged that the QWERTY design was concerned with trying to minimize jamming of the keys. How this was accomplished is a matter of some dispute. It is easy to find claims that QWERTY was intentionally designed to slow typing down so as to minimize jamming, although there does not appear to be any hard evidence to support this claim. There were many other typewriter designs competing with QWERTY during the latter part of the nineteenth century although QWERTY eventually came to dominate the market. News reports of typing contests during that period indicate that QWERTY did quite well.

Radically different layouts such as the Dvorak keyboard have been marketed for many decades but have not been able to replace the QWERTY layout, despite the advantages claimed by their proponents. The Dvorak layout placed the frequently used letters in the home row in order to minimize movement of the fingers while typing most words. There is little dispute of this fact, although there is a great deal of dispute about whether finger movement actually increases typing speeds [See QWERTY].

Many non-Latin alphabets have keyboard layouts that have nothing to do with QWERTY. The Russian layout, for instance, puts the common trigrams ыва, про, and ить on adjacent keys so that they can be typed by rolling the fingers. The Greek layout, on the other hand, is a variant of QWERTY.

Answer 3

The first typewriters were very slow. Users typed faster than the machine could strike a key. So, the developers decided to randomly arrange the keys in order to intentionally slow down users. Unfortunately, the keyboard arrangement is a legacy. And, sadly, I'm old enough to know this fact.

Answer 4

When the keyboard was first invented, there were several different arangements. One of those was arranged alphabetically. However, when it was tested against the "qwerty" keyboard, the one we use today, the current model proved to be more user friendly because the most commonly used letters were more easily reached.

Answer 5

The QWERTY keyboard layout was actually designed to slow our typing down! You see, by seperating keys used together often, typewriters jammed less often. A lot of people want to switch to DVORAK keyboard (more sensible b/c it's easier to type quickly), but the QWERTY keyboard is so common now that it may be around for a while.

Hope this helps!

Answer 6

actually it was a small trick.Just observe the alphabet arrangement.
You can see that all the alphabet are arranged in the ease of use.
the ones on the left and right are used less commonly than the ones on the centre.

Answer 7

I think some alphabets are grouped together or side by side, just because they follow one another in most of the words, so its easier typing. For example TY - ER - GH if you know what I mean. I can be wrong too.

Answer 8

Simply because on old mechanical typewriters, anyone could type too fast for the mechanics to be able to operate.

So they rearranged the keys in a non natural order to slow the typist down.

Answer 9

b/c someone stupid decided they wanted 2 make life harder lol

Answer 10

i don't know. i was wondering that to.