did qwert yuiop really invent the keyboard or is that just a joke?

Answer 1

People often wonder why the standard QWERTY layout was designed the way it is. The frequency with which alphabetic characters appear in English words, according to E. Cobham Brewer's "Dictionary of Phrase and Fable", is the following, in descending order:

ETAISONHRDLUCMFWYPGBVKJQXZ

Those familiar with the keyboard of the Linotype will recognize the first twelve letters in this sequence, albeit in an "etaoin shrdlu" sequence that is often inadvertently printed in newspapers and other periodicals. Thus there seems to be some reasoning behind the arrangement of letters on the Linotype. But even this arrangement wasn't as efficient as it might have been, because you wold expect the most frequent letters to be on the keys under the index, middle and fourth fingers, not starting with the little finger.

It seems that the developers of the earliest typewriters had a mechanical problem. Unlike some of the typewriters of a decade or two ago, all such machines originally consisted of type bars arranged in a kind of basket. Pressing a key actuated a lever which caused the type bar to rise and strike the ribbon, which transferred the type image to the paper. The early typewriters had the most frequently used letters arranged so that they were actuated by keys at the center of the keyboard. But that meant that the distance the type bar travelled before striking the ribbon was, in all cases, the shortest. The mechanical springs used to return the type bar to its resting position could not work fast enough to avoid jamming against one another in rapid typing. As a result, the letters were rearranged into the familiar QWERTY pattern to make jamming less likely.

With the rise of word processing software, the keyboard can theoretically be remapped into any configuration desired, even a custom one, as the keys on the computer keyboard don't actuate type bars but operate electrical switches.

Answer 2

It's just a joke. The 'qwerty' keyboard was developed through motion studies, to distribute the load more equitably between the eight fingers. The only one who gets a free ride is the left thumb. The little fingers get the least used letters, because they are the weakest, while the forefingers have two rows of letters to content with, because they are the strongest and the most agile.
There were numerous other keyboards tried out before the industry settled on the qwerty.

Answer 3

Qwert Yuiop

Answer 4

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did qwert yuiop really invent the keyboard or is that just a joke?

Answer 5

It's a joke. The QWERTY keyboard was developed to make people type slower, because at first people were typing so fast that it was causing problems for typewriter mechanisms. Although the engineering of keyboards has gotten better now, the keyboard had already become widely used and people didn't want to change.

Answer 6

No, it is just referred to as the qwerty keyboard.

Edit:
actually it's the opposite, the qwerty keyboard layout was created to slow down typing went we used mechanical typewriters. The Dovorack (spelling?) keyboard is the one that is tuned for more natural typing.

Answer 7

Qwerty Uiop

Answer 8

Nope.

Answer 9

Yes, he did. He was also the one who took gullible out of the dictionary. Don't believe me, look it up.