who decided where to place each letter on the keyboard?

Answer 1

The QWERTY keyboard layout was designed so that successive keystrokes would alternate sides of the keyboard so as to avoid jams in manual typewriters.

First designs of manual typewriters using keyboards with letters on alphabetical order could not keep up with the speed of fast typers and the QWERTY keyboard layout was designed to reduce jamming.

The QWERTY keyboard layout survived the era of electrical typewriters and the digital age because it was the first standard design.

The QWERTY keyboard layout was devised and created in the 1860s by the creator of the first modern typewriter, Christopher Sholes.

Answer 2

It goes back to the days when offices used typewriters for there admin. The secretaries etc. would get so used to the position of the keys that they would type so fast that the arms which move up to the paper to stamp it would catch and jam on each other, giving poor prints and being a general nuisance. To combat this issue they moved the keys around to the now very familiar QWERTY keyboard, so that they couldn't type so fast. Its not an issue any more with computers, but it appears to have stuck!

Answer 3

The others have explained the standard QWERTY keyboard more than adequately. There is also another, called the DVORAK keyboard, named after it's inventor, Dr. August Dvorak, which was meant to create a more efficient way of typing. It never really took hold, though, at least in the U.S.

Answer 4

A man named Christopher Sholes patented what we now call the QWERTY keyboard in 1867.

Answer 5

its the qwerty keyboard so whoever invented qwerty ..
Christopher Latham Sholes.

Answer 6

thank you Samuel Adams. Well said.