The keyboards are designed such that the people when typing with both the hands find it very comfortable to type and not have to look down at the keyboard from time to time to type. The arrangement is such that the most typed words like "the", "an" can be typed with three different fingers with out any problem.
And second reason is no company is challenging the format and trying to bring new design because of fear of loss due to unpopularity and that may prove bad design
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2007-04-20 03:15:49
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answered by niksforhelp 2
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Blame the typewriter. The first machines in the 19th century did go from A to Z. But this stymied good typists because the most frequently used keys were contiguous. When typists struck, say, the "a" and "b" keys in rapid succession, the spokes carrying those letters often jammed. The solution: separate these and other often- used keys
2007-04-20 02:55:01
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answered by Squirrley Temple 7
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This dates back to the original typewriters, the most used keys in letter writing are grouped in the centre, for use with your strongest fingers and close together. The keys were sometimes very heavy to press as well. This still creates faster typing rates, due to the proximity of the main keys.
2007-04-20 02:55:11
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answered by Anonymous
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The qwerty keyboard grow to be designed in the process the time of the handbook typewriter. It grow to be meant to decelerate the typist and keep the stems/hammers from getting tangled with one yet another by using shifting mixtures of letters around and seeing which of them have been given tangled the main. some thing like that. It grow to be meant to offer the typist some form of rhythm. In different words you may desire to't have an actually observe like 'the' or 'and' in a row, or the typewriter might jam. For that count number, if it went abcdefg, a new child might desire to form at a wild speed and irratic speed..
2016-10-03 07:14:35
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answered by ? 4
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its because in the old days, they found that on type writers, by having the keys arranged alphabetically, people would type too fast, and the typewriter would get jammed. By putting them in an illogical order, this slowed down the typist, thus solving the problem.
2007-04-20 02:53:44
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answered by Anonymous
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They are arranged so that the keys used most often in the english language are easy to reach from the position taught in a typing class. If you are the hunt and peck kind of typer then you're out of luck.
2007-04-20 03:00:21
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answered by wolfatrest2000 6
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When they originally designed the keyboard on the old manual typewriter, typing was so quick that sometimes often-used letters would get jammed together. The QWERTY keyboard was developed to minimise the likelihood that the keys would jam during fast typing.
2007-04-20 02:53:27
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answered by Velouria 6
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It's based on their usage in the alphabet. they put the most used ones in easier positions to get to with your fingers. If you notice the ones that are barely used i.e. q, z and x are not in as easy of spots to hit than others like e, d and i. Good question though.
Peace.
2007-04-20 02:53:30
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answered by curtisjb1983 2
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Mistress got it mostly right. The keys were intelligently scrambled, the most used keys were put in the most difficult locations. With voice recognition keyboards will be obsolete.
2007-04-20 07:00:58
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answered by grysmn 4
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They are designed for ease of use, by which letter are used most often. Look at Q, Z, & X, these are the most uncomfortable to type, but they are the least used letters, so that's okay. It would be bad to have the A in the Q spot, because you couldn't type as quickly.
2007-04-20 02:55:17
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answered by lawmom 5
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