2007-01-07 05:32:29 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
The 1874 Sholes & Glidden typewriters established the QWERTY layout for the letter keys that is used nowadays in Anglophone countries for virtually all computer keyboards and the majority of other keyboards. Other nations using the Latin alphabet may use variants of the QWERTY layout, for example the French AZERTY layout.
It is generally acknowledged that the QWERTY design was concerned with trying to minimize jamming of the keys. How this was accomplished is a matter of some dispute. It is easy to find claims that QWERTY was intentionally designed to slow typing down so as to minimize jamming, although there does not appear to be any hard evidence to support this claim. There were many other typewriter designs competing with QWERTY during the latter part of the nineteenth century although QWERTY eventually came to dominate the market. News reports of typing contests during that period indicate that QWERTY did quite well.
2007-01-07 05:34:20 · answer #1 · answered by Johnny Q. 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The spatial disposition of the keys is very important in blind typing. The most common is without doubt the QWERTY keyboard, followed by the Dvorak keyboard. There are many national variants, designed to accomodate the special characters for áccèñtéd lëttèrs and local currencies. In fact, keyboard layout is a huge mess, whith every producer doing its little bit to confuse the matter and making keyboard mapping (the province of programs like xmodmap) a daunting task.
2007-01-07 13:46:26 · answer #2 · answered by Ashley 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I took typing in high school, my teacher told us that the keys are like they are because they are arranged according to their use. The keys that are hardly used, you will notice, are located on the bottom or top corners while the popular ones are in the middle.
Just for fun, did you know the letters for the word, "typewriter" are all on the top row?
2007-01-07 13:36:31 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Because when the person who invented the typewriter wanted to sell it, he wanted the salesman to be able to type the word typewriter all from the top line. It was to help sell the typewriter. It was a way to sell it or so he thought.
2007-01-07 13:37:34 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
They are organized accoriding to usage. The most used towards the middle, the least used towards the "outside" of the keyboard.
2007-01-07 13:37:14 · answer #5 · answered by violamom74 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Supposedly, they are in the oder of frequency used. The (s t r l m a e i o u) are generally used most frequently, so they are in the spots which are easiest to reach.
2007-01-07 13:36:44 · answer #6 · answered by jmiller 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was designed for mechanical typewriters to slow typists down. They were typing too fast and the type bars were jamming.
2007-01-07 13:35:03 · answer #7 · answered by Barkley Hound 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
they bunch the keys up that get used the most together
2007-01-07 13:34:43 · answer #8 · answered by rhino_man420 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
they put things in the order that they think would help you type
2007-01-07 13:34:38 · answer #9 · answered by mara 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because people will find it is hard to type a word...
2007-01-07 13:38:08 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋