Is there some pattern on the keyboard?

Question

Was there some sort of pattern in mind for the letters when the typing keyboard was made?

Answer 1

"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. A business associate of Sholes, James Densmore, suggested splitting up keys for letters commonly used together to speed up typing by preventing common pairs of typebars from striking the platen at the same time and sticking together."

Answer 2

When typewriters were first made, they put the keys in alphabetical order. However, people were able to type way too fast, and if you know anything about how typewriters work, the stamping arms would get all tangled up.

The solution was to devise a keyboard that woudl slow people down. The result was the QWERTY keyboard (first five letters of top row).

Answer 3

For the QWERTY keyboard the goal was to actually make it as difficult to type as possible. People were typing too fast and the typewriters were getting jammed. The result is our modern day keyboard.

Answer 4

Back in the days of mechanical typewriters, the QWERTY keyboard layout was designed to slow typists down, so they wouldn't hit the keys too closely one after another and make them jam.

Answer 5

Google "keyboard pattern".

There was just to much info to post here.

Answer 6

Most used have easy access.

Which is why the Q takes longer to type then the T. Kinda gotta shift your hand to hit the Q and the Z.

Answer 7

It was designed to make typing hard. Typewriters had lots of moving parts, and thus were prone to jamming when one typed too fast.

Answer 8

seems everyone is right about why the qwerty design was made.