Why are the letters on the keyboard arranged the way they are???

Question

i mean 2 me it looks very random, but yet its easy 2 memorize,,,,,,

Answer 1

QWERTY debuted in 1872 on an early typewriter invented by Christopher Sholes. The original rumor is that the letters were so placed to avoid jamming from high speed typing.
Most people believe that the layout was meant to put common letter pairs on opposite sides of the keyboard to make it easier to type.

There have been other layouts but even if they were better, people returned to QWERTY. All the letters in the word TYPEWRITER are on the top row. Maybe for sales to show the invention off or was it just coincidence.

The QWERTY keyboard, so called for the top row of letters on its left-hand side, was devised to make things easy for the typewriter, not the typist. Sholes and company, who had originally arranged their keyboard in alphabetical order, decided to put the most commonly used letters (or what they thought were the most commonly used letters) as far apart as possible in the machine's innards.

Answer 2

The keys were originally ordered this way to deliberately slow the typist down when he or she typed. The first technology based keyboards could not cope with fast very fast typing. The "Qwerty' keyboard is not the most efficient way to order the keys, but by the time the concern about people typing too fast and causing difficulties for the early technology had been resolved, people were so used to the old key order, that it was never changed.

Answer 3

Gerald F Keyboard invented the qwerty board in 1904.

Answer 4

THE VOWELS ARE EASIEST TO ACCESS THAT WAY. Probably. And I think they had it in alphabetical order but then the secretaries were typing too fast and started breaking the type writers so they changed it to be more confusing. But it actually is way better. And the secretaries still broke the type writers so they gave up and left it at qwerty!

Answer 5

Good question!! I knew the answer too---It was a logical reason but DAMMIT I forgot it.!!!.