why does the keyboard say 'qwert' instead of going 'abcd...'?

Answer 1

It's designed for the most common used letters to be easily accessed if you type properly. The most common letters are on the home row (middle row) and the least frequently used letters are the farthest away.

Answer 2

Because of typewriters. Typewriters had to be laid out with qwerty because people could type faster than the mechanics of the typewriter could handle and the hammers would all get jammed together. QWERTY layout helped slow down people's ability to type (well, that was the theory anyway).

If you so desire, you can choose the ABCD layout from your keyboard settings in Windows, then take off the keys of your keyboard and arrange them in order... Seriously... Lots of folks have started doing this....

Answer 3

Remember the old typewriters with the long keys that went down? When they were first invented, the typists were so fast that the keys would get tangled up so the layout was rearranged to slow them down. The 'most popular letters in the middle' theory is wrong - 'a' for example, is out on the left and you type it with your little finger; not the easiest.

Answer 4

If you know how to touch type you will know the answer, if you don`t then you should look it up on a search engine.




Because when we used typewriters, the arms that stamped the letters on the page would get tangled if you went too fast. The layout was designed to slow the typist down to a certain speed, and I think space out certain letter groups so the more common letters would not tangle up. It stuck then, because secretaries became proficient on this letter layout, and who wants to slow down a typist when you're paying them for output, but you want to transfer them to an electronic format.

Answer 5

The QWERTY keyboard design came from old keyboards from typewriters. They designed it so that the most commonly used letters were under the fastest fingers, enabling typing speeds to increase.

There are actually other keyboard layouts you can buy besides QWERTY, such as maltron and even an "abcd..." board. But these have proven themselves less effecient.

Answer 6

I did take some typing instructions a long time ago and I seem to recall that when your left hand is on ASDF & your right hand on JKL: these keys are much more easily found. This is the method for touch typing (without looking at the keyboard)

Answer 7

it was originally designed with regards to how often a letter is pressed, so that the arms on a typewriter didnt get tangled together. with computers this problem doesnt exist anymore

a more efficient keyboard layout is the dvorak layout. you can change your computer to read this layout and then remove the keys and put them in their new positions. once you are used to this new layout, you can type faster than with a qwerty keyboard.

Answer 8

The keyboard is designed to put the letters most frequently used together and make typing more efficient.

Of course this doesn't make any difference if you use the one finger method of typing.

Answer 9

Apparently Henry Mill, who created the typewriter had some problems with the letters being in alphabetical order...the keys would jam. So he moved the keys around so that it would work perfectly.

Any other theory is pure crap.

Answer 10

they came up with the computer keyboard from typewriters and if you had the alphabet on typewriters made some keys jam