Why are the letters on a standard QWERTY keyboard arranged in the order they are?

Answer 1

no keep typewriter keys from hitting each other

Answer 2

It's actually designed to make typing less easy. When they first invented typewriters, the letters were arranged alphabetically, but the typists became so fast they would type faster than the machine could print the letters on the page, and the individual bars with the letters on them would get stuck together, so they developed the QWERTY keyboard because you have to type slower on them.

Answer 3

Well initially, the typewriter keys were arranged in alphabetical order but the typists were so fast, the keys frequently jammed together. So QWERTY was born to slow down the typing and cut down the number of times the keys jammed. Simple.

Answer 4

Because back when people used typewriters, the keys kept getting jammed. So someone figured out how to arrange the keys so that the letters that are used right after each other most of the time are spread apart on the keyboard so that they wouldn't get jammed so often.

Answer 5

If you have one of those old manual typewriters, you'll see that the keys are mechanically connected to hammers which strike the ribbon. Fast typers don't fully release one key before starting to strike the next one. The keys were arranged in QWERTY order to prevent people from typing so fast that they'd jam the keys.

Answer 6

The guy was going to position the keys the other way round but his mate said

"If you do it like that nobody will be able to SAY 'ytrewq' "

" If you put it the other way round they will be able to call the keyboard a Qwerty and everyone will think it was to slow typing down".

Answer 7

It came from typewriters. They used to have them arranged alphabetically, but people would type so fast that they would break the keyboard so they rearranged the letters to slow people down.

Answer 8

They come from the old manual typewriters, arranged so that the most commonly used letters weren't near each other. This helped to prevent keys from sticking when struck.

Answer 9

The inventor thought it would be more convenient to put the letters this way. They are now discovering that there could be a better way to type to avoid carpul tunnel. and QWERTY may not be all that great for you

Answer 10

to the fingers on your hand it was the simple way to get letters arrange for easy access according to how often they were used, allowing for faster typing speed, and according to every one else, what my keyboarding teacher told me was wrong, it is because of the typesetters getting intertwined. Hey I learned something new today.

Answer 11

The type writer was invented by Mr Frederick Qwerty who was determined you would see his name first. If you look carefully you will see his wife's name Iopa as well.
I think this is right
Mind you I am pissed!