This question is ONLY for people who can type!!?

Question

Why aren't the letters G, O, and D right next to each other on my keyboard?

I love every single one of you guys, but I hate how you all make it so hard for me to choose a best answer. :D

Answer 1

asdfghjkl;

wth? YOU'RE RIGHT!
(damn it all to heck!)

Answer 2

Because the typewriter keyboard was designed by a left-handed person (can't think of the man's name right now, but I'm sure someone will cut and paste it from the web somewhere.) The most commonly used letters are struck with the left hand: R S T D E A

The least used letters are on the left pinky: Q Z

Therefore, G O and D are all placed according to their ammout of usage as per the finger they are placed on.

Answer 3

The first typewriters were mechanically awkward. The characters were positioned to slow down a fast typist who could jam up the keys.
HOWEVER, the old linotype machines used to set newspaper type were laid out so that the keys were laid out in vertical rows with the most common lettters on the left. A linotype operator could set most of the type with the left hand and use the right hand to shift the line of type into a galley tray when it was full.
Here's the layout of that first vertical row:
e
t
a
o
i
n
s
h
r
d
l
u

Answer 4

Because you haven't customized your keyboard configuration that way...

I'm really tempted not to bother with a straight answer, but what the heck....

QWERTY kbs were designed to S L O W D O W N typing speeds, because more efficient keyboards jammed the typewriters - you have heard of typewriters?...

"O" is on the right side of the keyboard, because the most common letter, "E", had to be made harder to type - so it appears on the left had side on the top row, not the more convienent right middle row. "GH" is more common than "GO" so they were separated into right and left hand keystrokes as well... :-Þ

Dvorak keyboards are more efficient, but are rare in a market dominated by QWERTY, probably because one has to relearn the keyboard, and one still has to face the ubiquity of QWERTY at work.

Answer 5

The modern keyboard was actually formatted in a College around the invention of the type writer. They were set up so the most commonly used letters would be the easiest to get to and so forth.

Now, if this really upsets you, it is possible for you go into your computer's operating system (like windows) and reset you key map. Which means you can make the " a " key type an " s "

Best wishes.

Answer 6

The most common letters on your keyboard are hardest to reach because back when the first typewriter was designed they had to find a way to slow people down while typing so the letter bars didn't jam up. That is why G, O, and D are not next to each other.

Answer 7

Wasn't that covered by the DaVinci Code?

ADDENDUM

"They found the QWERTY format was the best for typing the english language."

Actually, the Dvorak keyboard is best for typing English. The QWERTY layout was specifically designed to avoid jamming the mechanism, with no regard to speed or efficiency.

Answer 8

They started out together on a stone keyboard, but then change of climate and vegetation forced them to spread apart?

Answer 9

You can pop out the individual keys and move them around!

But honestly, I believe they changed the keyboard when typists would type too fast and jam typewriters. They changed to qwerty to slow them down.

Answer 10

Why have you dediced to askk a question that is discrimating?

I belvie alll peples arre qeqequally abble to finndd God on the keyboard.

:))

Answer 11

It was designed to slow typists down. The original typewriters weren't set up that way . The typwriters kept getting the keys jammed together, by people typing too fast, so the letters were scrambled.( & as far as I know , it wasn't Satan's work ;D)