why not the keys on keyboard r in alphabatical order?

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. Sholes solved the jamming problem not by forcing typists to slow down, but by separating common sequences of letters in English. 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

Actually, they originally were. The problem is, this was back in the days of manual typewriters. Each letter was on an arm that would swing up and hit the paper. As typists got faster, letters that were next to each other would stick together or hit each other, making mistakes, or jamming up altogether. The QWERTY keyboard, named for the first six letters, was designed and patented by Christopher Sholes in 1868 and sold to Remington in 1873. This design served two purposes. 1) Letters that occur next to each other in the English language (like T and H) were spaced apart. And 2) to slow down typists. Although the latter point is disputed.

There are other layouts like the popular Dvorak keyboard designed by Dr. August Dvorak and William Dealey and patented in 1936. Because we no longer need to worry about typewriters getting jammed up, this design was intended to have the more commonly used letters and combinations be more easily accessible. The current world record for typing speed was achieved on a Dvorak keyboard.

Answer 3

lovey,

It's because we used to type too fast.

Long ago, in the first days of the typewriter, around 1872, in fact, the machines had wires in them that worked the keys that would strike the paper. Typists were faster than the typewriters, and often jammed them. As a result, about 1875-1878 (he started working on the keyboard in 1875 and received his patent for it in August of 1878) a fellow named Sholes came up with the arrangement of the keyboard as you see it now, which is usually called the "qwerty" keyboard, for the letters on the top left. It slowed typists down enough that they could use the typewriters of the day.

Here's the page showing what the typewriters looked like in 1878. It's from the US patent Office, and it's Sholes' patent on his typewriter:

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As you can see, they were quite complicated affairs, and by separating the commonly-used letters and forcing the typists to reach in different directions for them, they were slowed, the typewriters didn't jam, and typing speeded up, increasing output.

Actually, there have been other keyboard arrangements, many of them allowing for much higher typing speeds, and there's really no reason not to use them. There are computer programs to change the keys, too, but we've used the qwerty keyboard for so long that it's just too hard to change everybody's reflexes in a short time, so we really don't try.

The major alternative keyboard has been the Dvorak keyboard, and it shows some evidence of being faster and a little easier to learn, but it doesn't seem to make us any more accurate, so there hasn't been any motivation to turn from the tried-and-true to the new.

Answer 4

The keys on keyboard are lying in a technical method. u know our fingures r different, the old one make these keys in specfic order to reach our fingures easily, where r the most common words written by us easily. so, that's why in keyboard's key r not in alphabatical order..

Answer 5

before computer or typewriter there was a printing machine (platen machine ).
at that time they were using the way to arrange the alphabet in some distinct method by using upper case lower case & side case.
they do changing on place of alphabates on cases depend upon easy to compose the matters at last they found the final result as an easiest way of composing .
that standard has choosen for keyboard also after making some litle changes.

Answer 6

Dear,
do you know that our fingures have different length?
Well, the reason for random-ness in keyboard is :

we will not use all alphabets frequently.

And we have only ten fingures :-)

Among them, few fingures do respond quickly but not all

So keyboard is arranged in this fashion so that the alphabet whose probability of using more can be accessed quickly.

Answer 7

keys are arranged the way they are because on old mauel type writers the keys would jam if you typed too fast.so they were arranged to slow typist down.werid but true.i read they are have a new one but havnt seen one

Answer 8

So the human brain can type without looking at the keys

Answer 9

The most commonly used keys are in the most easily reached locations.

Answer 10

It is the method we are following years ago. And if we learn type writting it is more useful and easy for getting speed.