y dont we have da keys in da keyboard in alphabetical order??????/?

Answer 1

he he ha he ha sooooooooooooo silly
Dont u think thatz more unique and also easy 4 us to type????

Answer 2

considering the butchery of the language apparent in the question, y do it matta, However, in the dark ages before dot matrix and laser print and word processors, typewriters were big clunky things which had the letters on long levers which struck an ink ribbon and transferred the letter onto the paper. Believe it or not people were so proficient that when they typed the most frequently used letters were close together and caused mini pile-ups when the keys would jam so they had to design a layout which would slow the typists down and would seperate the most frequently used keys so qwerty was the answer, it wasn't the only answer but for some other reasons, touch typing etc. it was the one that stuck

Answer 3

The QWERTY keyboard layout comes from the days of typewriters. Early typewriters would lock up if you typed too fast (seriously - check out a really old typewriter. If you press a bunch of keys at once, the little arms that stamp the letters on the paper get all jammed up). The QWERTY layout is actually designed to make you type *slower*, so that you wouldn't cause the typewriter to jam. This convention carried over to computer keyboards.

There is another type of keyboard layout called DVORAK that's designed to make it really fast to type, by putting commonly used letters in positions that are easy to reach for a touch typist.

Answer 4

There are 2 seperate possible reasons:

1. When the original manual typewriter was made, keys would jam if too many different keys were typed too fast, therefore they changed the keys around to confuse people so they couldn't type so fast.

2. The keys are placed so that the most-often typed keys are closest to the center, and the others are more difficult to get to.

Answer 5

It relates back to when manual typewriters were used. Typists could type so fast the arms which struck the ribbon and paper would jam.
QWERTY was developed to seperate the commonly used vowels and constonants and slow down typists. In this way the arms were less likely to jam due to distance apart and slower speed.
Since then other keyboards have been tried (see:DVORAK) which are likely to be faster, but we are creatures of habit and people like to revert to QWERTY.
It's not the 'easy to reach' theory, or all the vowels would be on the middle line.

Answer 6

The answers above about reducing the jamming of early typewriter keys are spot on.

But did you know that the longest word that you can type using only the top row of letters on a standard QWERTY keyboard is... TYPEWRITER!

Answer 7

HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH. or...When they design the keyboard, it was actually more logical to have the keys where they are so your stronger fingers could type the keys most often used, if you notice z,x, q are all in the corners in the ackward spots.

Answer 8

It is odd you would ask this.
The key layout has been lik this since it waas invented many many years before I was born.
1945

Answer 9

Because it's easier to type that way! Imagine how hard it would be to type 'cab' or 'back' or anything like that. And it helps with spelling...it just makes thins easier

Answer 10

Why dont you take a freggin engish class. Prolly a crak dealer...