what is the reason behind irreguler arrengement of characters on keyboard?

Question

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why such arrengment of character is there on keyboard
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why this type of arrengement is not aplayied

Answer 1

early typewriters would jam if the keys that were used often were too close together. The qwerty keyboard was developed to space the common letters and symbols as far apart as possible. It became traditional.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY

Answer 2

Everyone else sort of beat me to it. The only thing positive I can add is that there are other standards available other the "QWERTY," which you are probably using. Some one is also offering an Alphabetical set up for the hunters and peckers. If you were industrious you could re-arrange your keys on your keyboard and then re assign the keys with software. Practice on a cheapy or a broken unit first as key placement can be tedious.

Answer 3

My understanding is that the very first typewriter keyboards were arranged in alphabetical order. But they had a terrible problem with the keys constantly jamming together. That is why it was redesigned to separate letters frequently used together. The keyboard design now used, called the QWERTY keyboard after the first six letters on the first row (the first row of letters), was found to be a very good design and soon became the standard.

Answer 4

It all goes waaaaaaaay back to the type writer. The type writer was a machine that had letters pushing down onto a lever which would the smack the engraved inked letter onto a paper. In order to decrease jamming, uncommon and commonly used letters were placed near each other. As we progressed through our technological eras, we kept the keyboards the same because it was how it was before (It just kept a standard. After all, that's how we learned it before right? Why keep changing it?)

Answer 5

with this type of arrengement is easily to type with 10 finger system

Answer 6

Hahahaha... Good Question.

This was evolved from Type-Writer days :-)

"How about having a stomach direcly at the mouth's location, so that the food doesn't travel down from mouth to stomach ;-)"

Answer 7

take a typing class, it is all explained there and makes good sense. Has to do with keys most used and hand placement.

Answer 8

It was meant to seperate the most commonly used characters so that we don't have difficulty when typing.