why is the alphabet mixed up on a key board and not in alphabetical order?

Question

who designed it this way?

Answer 1

The QWERTY keyboard layout was devised in the 1860s by the creator of the first modern typewriter, Christopher Sholes, a newspaper editor who lived in Milwaukee. Originally, the characters on the typewriters he invented were arranged alphabetically, set on the end of a metal bar which struck the paper when its key was pressed. However, once an operator had learned to type at speed, the bars attached to letters that lay close together on the keyboard became entangled with one another, forcing the typist to manually unstick the typebars, and also frequently blotting the document[1]. Sholes solved the jamming problem not by forcing typists to slow down, but by separating common sequences of letters in English[2]. Pairs of keys that are frequently struck in succession were placed as far from each other as possible, so that the hammers that were likely to be used in quick succession were less likely to interfere with each other

Answer 2

The qwerty keyboard was designed during the time of the manual typewriter. It was meant to slow down the typist and keep the stems/hammers from getting tangled with each other by moving combinations of letters around and seeing which ones got tangled the most. Something like that.

It was meant to give the typist some sort of rhythm. In other words you could't have an actual word like 'the' or 'and' in a row, or the typewriter would jam. For that matter, if it went abcdefg, a child could type at a wild speed and irratic speed..

Answer 3

The qwerty keyboard grew to become into designed in the process the time of the instruction manual typewriter. It grew to become into meant to decelerate the typist and save the stems/hammers from getting tangled with one yet another via shifting mixtures of letters around and seeing which ones have been given tangled the main. something like that. It grew to become into meant to offer the typist some form of rhythm. In different words you may't have an truthfully word like 'the' or 'and' in a row, or the typewriter would jam. For that matter, if it went abcdefg, a infant could type at a wild velocity and irratic velocity..

Answer 4

Actually, unlike most people are saying, it was NOT designed to slow typists down, instead, it was designed to move the more common keys away from each other in a typewriter. The original Dvořák' keyboard was designed as the most efficient layout to date, but the hammers in the typewriters kept getting stuck because the layout was too efficient. They designed the Qwerty keyboard with the hammer heads in mind, and designed it so that they would NOT get stuck. After that, most people stuck with the Qwerty keyboard. I, myself, use both, but prefer the Dvořák' layout!

FYI:
There are also one handed Dvořák' layouts for people who can only use one hand!

Answer 5

Because it is more efficient to use if you type with more than one finger at a time .

QWERTY (pronounced /ˈkwərti/) 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.

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

regards,
Philip T

Answer 6

The keyboard design is based on letter use. The middle row is the most used letters.

Answer 7

I'm not sure who designed it, but it is made so that the most common letters in the english language are in the most ergonomically accessible locations.

Answer 8

It was designed by a Hungarian called Qwerty Uiop.
He wanted his name on the top.

Answer 9

It makes it easier to type things because the letters needed most are placed where the finger can easily be pressed.

Answer 10

it is designed based upon the frquent usage of the letter and the stress needed to type them....