Mechanical keyboards where intentionally designed qwerty to slow the operater down to prevent keyboard jamming, with modern keyboards that simply doesn't apply.
2006-10-21 10:55:23 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
QWERTY keyboards are a worldwide standard used by typists and administrators because this is the means by which they are trained to touch type. All typists (myself included) know exactly where all the keys are and that the two resting points are ( left hand: asdf and right hand: ;lkj ) with g and h in the middle. Our fingers can automatically move to any key on the keyboard knowing exactly where specific letters or characters are. If the QWERTY keyboard was changed, or scrapped, the millions of typists out there would be lost and would have to go right back to the novice status.
2006-10-21 11:52:38 · answer #1 · answered by Nigel B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The qwerty keyboard intentionally has the most commonly used letters in easy to reach places, with hardler letters in more difficult to reach places. This makes the keyboard very useful, even if there were a slightly better order possible. Certainly moving the "Q" or "Z" keys to the middle would not help, and notice how the bottom row (which is hardest to reach for most people) contains letters that are rarely used, compared to letters like "A,S,D...".
2006-10-21 11:08:37 · answer #2 · answered by Justin A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because most of us learnt to type on a qwerty keyboard and the layout was proved to be the easiest set up to use. I for one only learnt to type on a manual and electric typewriter at school, we never had computers so although I can type on the keyboard I still don't know much about the computer.
2006-10-21 11:00:58 · answer #3 · answered by mistickle17 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Greetings
One point overlooked in the comments so far. The QWERTY layout is used in English, other languages use different layouts.
I don't wish to learn a different layout after long experience with QWERTY.
Brian
2006-10-21 12:04:12 · answer #4 · answered by brian427uk 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is an interesting question. I assume it's because it would be very difficult for everyone else to change to a new system after years of experiencing typing this way.
2006-10-21 10:58:51 · answer #5 · answered by OsamaBinBush 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because world wide there are millions of typists (including me ) who can touch type because their mind knows where the keys are if you changed it they would all have to be retrained. There have been a number of attempts to introduce a different type of key board but they have all failed
2006-10-21 10:58:43 · answer #6 · answered by Maid Angela 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the point is, the whole world has gotten used to it now. ill ask you a question, would you like to learn to type all over again? I'm sure many Secretaries would promptly suffer from a change back to a,b,c,d,e,f,g, etc.
2006-10-21 11:01:16 · answer #7 · answered by mattb77 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because so far its the most efficient machine for typing in spite of its disadvantages
2006-10-21 10:58:52 · answer #8 · answered by efrenefren 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋