that would make it easier,right?
2006-09-19 16:19:46 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
I don't know if you're young enough to have seen an old typewriter -- or seen one in a movie. it had long slender bars that would strike the paper. If you try to type too fast, the bars would hit each other and get tangled. The inventor of this system used studies on letter pair frequences and spaced them out to minimize the chance that this would happen.
I myself used such a typewriter back in the 70's and even then you could only type so fast or you would get tangled strike bars.
2006-09-19 17:25:28 · answer #1 · answered by soulblazer28 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, no...
QWERTY, is the most common modern-day keyboard layout on English language computer and typewriter keyboards. It takes its name from the first six letters seen in the keyboard's top first row of letters. The QWERTY design was patented by Christopher Sholes in 1868 and sold to Remington in 1873, when it first appeared in typewriters.
Other languages arrange their keyboards differently. Christopher Sholes first developed the arrangement according to the frequency of each letter being used in the English language, and the "comfort" in being able to type it. I mean, the letter "e" is very common... could you imagine if you typed it with your left pinky all the time? It would hurt! So, he arranged the keys according to comfort and frequency.
2006-09-19 16:26:14 · answer #2 · answered by Inseries 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The QWERTY keyboard, so observed as for the suited row of letters on its left-hand area, grow to be devised to make issues ordinary for the typewriter, not the typist. In what's frequently considered the 1st functional typewriter--designed by potential of an American inventor named Christopher Sholes and a team of cohorts interior the overdue 1860s--the form, arranged in one in each of those around basket under the carriage, grow to be companies to time-honored jamming at typing speeds in a approaches greater effective than hunt-and-%.. (yet another subject, by potential of how, grow to be that form met paper on the backside of the cylinder, so the typist could not study the culmination of his or her labors without lifting up the carriage.) to sparkling up the jamming subject, Sholes and enterprise, who had initially arranged their keyboard in alphabetical order, desperate to place the main normally used letters (or what they theory have been the main normally used letters) as a approaches aside as achievable interior the device's innards. the subsequent twelve months, 1873, they became their invention over to the Remington gun enterprise of manhattan State, and their keyboard has been elementary ever considering the fact that, besides the fact that if succeeding advancements in typewriter layout quickly rendered it ridiculous.
2016-12-18 13:32:20 · answer #3 · answered by ayoub 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The QWERTY keyboard was designed with the most common letters in words designed to be in the easiest reach of the "home keys" (F and J).
2006-09-19 16:22:34 · answer #4 · answered by Jin Tao 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it was designed to slow the typist down, and cut down on typewriter keys hitting each other!
and then came Dvorzak!
2006-09-19 16:37:05 · answer #5 · answered by jake cigar™ is retired 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
harder. Commonly used letters are in the middle. Less commonly letters are near the outside
2006-09-19 16:27:09 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
dont know.Probably the people who created it werent that smart.
2006-09-19 16:28:56 · answer #7 · answered by moun_ster 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
to mess with your head ;)
2006-09-19 16:27:01 · answer #8 · answered by twifu 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋