2006-08-11 15:52:12 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwerty
This will give you indepth detail of why the keyboard is the way it is.. and also show you the other differnt types of keyboard layouts.. Its interesting..
Tis layoput is called "QWERTY" based on the first few alhpabets on the top left..
2006-08-11 16:46:07 · answer #1 · answered by xlord_vader 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Part of the current arrangement is to keep typists from typing too fast, because mechanical typwriters could not keep up.
However, there is also some good sense behind it. The most-used characters in English are (space) E, T, O, A, N, I, R, S, H. If you look, the space bar is a big honking thing, and the letters are sort of spread out so that you use different fingers for the most used letters.
Much better layouts have been proposed, but the one you see everywhere is the standard, and it's hard to convince everyone to change.
2006-08-11 16:00:50 · answer #2 · answered by Computer Guy 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
its no longer random, while desktops have been first being programmed they moved them like that to verify a undeniable sort of typewriter. It substitute into greater handy to software the machines like this. That typewriter substitute into initially designed to slow human beings down, it was alphabetical yet human beings have been given so quickly at typing that they might jam the typewriter. Now, desktops are designed so the keys used the main in programming are interior the middle, the vowels could be accessed very easilly, and the spacebar is extremely huge so which you would be able to hit it with the two thumb.
2016-11-04 10:07:23 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question, I always wondered that when I was younger. I think they are arranged according to which letters are used the most.
2006-08-11 16:00:02 · answer #4 · answered by star 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
because they changed it years ago when they used to use Typewriters. It caused the hammers to jam while typing to they arranged the keys so that the typing hammers would never collide. They've used the QWERTY design ever since.
2006-08-11 15:54:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
The Lunatic answer above is correct. The layout was designed to prevent typewriter jams.
2006-08-11 16:08:09 · answer #6 · answered by JB 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because the keyboard is laid out with our dexterity in mind. In fact, only one revision has been made since it was originally laid out and that was a minor change.
2006-08-11 16:00:32 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the person who decided to make it the way it is obviously didn't know the alphabet.
2006-08-11 16:00:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
because it was designed for natural curvatur of the fingers and hand as well as memorization for keyboarding \ typing
2006-08-11 16:05:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
If so,you will get a lot of difficuties in typing
2006-08-11 15:57:24 · answer #10 · answered by Jason 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋