why the alphabets on the keyboard are as asd...why not they are like abcdefgh....means why they r niot arrange

Question

means why not theu are arranged in alphabetical order

Answer 1

Interestingly, the standard keyboard design (called QWERTY, based on the first six letters of the top row of the keyboard) was implemented in the late 1870's to slow down typing speeds. Those were the days of the mechanical typewriter, in which the keys would jam together and fail to retract if a typist went too fast. "[The] Qwerty layout was designed to slow down typing, so those pesky keys would not jam anymore." In today's electronic age, Qwerty is obsolete - a fact that had led to the invention of numerous alternative keyboard designs that enable faster typing.

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Answer 2

According to legend, the seemingly random layout of today's keyboards has its origins in the limitations of the first typewriters. The early machines were crude and prone to jamming if you typed too fast. The QWERTY keyboard was designed to place the most commonly used letters on the opposite sides of the keyboard, making jamming mechanically less likely. Legend has it that the QWERTY keyboard was also made intentionally clumsy (only one vowel in the home row, for instance) in order to slow down typists and further reduce the possibility of jamming.

Within a relatively short time, of course, typewriter engineering had improved sufficiently that jamming was no longer a major concern. But by then, the story goes, people were used to the QWERTY keyboard and we've been stuck with it ever since, even in the face of allegedly superior alternatives such as the Dvorak keyboard. Advocates say research proves the Dvorak is easy to learn and makes typing faster and more accurate. But it's never made much headway because of the crushing power of standards, even stupid ones.

Baloney, say the authors of the article you enclose, S.J. Liebowitz and Stephen Margolis. They point out that (1) the research demonstrating the superiority of the Dvorak keyboard is sparse and methodologically suspect; (2) a sizable body of work suggests that in fact the Dvorak offers little practical advantage over the QWERTY; (3) at least one study indicates that placing commonly used keys far apart, as with the QWERTY, actually speeds typing, since you frequently alternate hands; and (4) the QWERTY keyboard did not become a standard overnight but beat out several competing keyboards over a period of years. Thus it may be fairly said to represent the considered choice of the marketplace.

Answer 3

The arrangement dates back to the typewriter era where the blades would get stuck if you typed too fast, so the letters were laid out in a way that would make it slower to type frequently used combinations.

Notice how you often have to use the same finger to type common words?

Efforts were underway to arrange them better once that limitation was overcome, and a new keyboard layout was developped that increased output greatly, but so many people were used to the existing layout that there was great resistance to change it, and it never happened.

Personally, i'd be willing to relearn in order to maximize typing speed, but I'm maybe less lazy than the average joe.

Answer 4

For a complete discussion on this, check the Wikipedia link below. By the way, the name for the common layout is the QWERTY keyboard layout.

Answer 5

The type alphabets on key board are made standard to make sure typing come easy so as to use alphabets which are often used.

Answer 6

It also seems to work because of the key layout, you can type faster if the letters alternate each side of the keyboard, two hands typing is faster than one

Answer 7

Hi. The most used letters were put closest to the 'home' positions of F and J. Your keyboard has bumps on these keys.

Answer 8

speed. They are set up so the most used letters are within the quickest reach. thats why the Z and X are a tough pinkie reach cause you dont use them that much.

Answer 9

Check this link

Answer 10

We use the QWERTY layout (your standard layout.. look across the top, q, w, e, r, t, y)

This link explains why:
http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html