Why are the letter's on keyboards all jumbled up ?

Question

...And not in alphabetical order ?

Answer 1

http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwe...

hope this helps, this is the site my keyboarding teacher used to teach us about and why

Answer 2

For speed, if you notice your vowels are split up between your two hands, also while typing notice certain letter combinations go back and forth between both hands, because you can follow up with an opposing hand faster than following up with the same finger in a different location on the same hand, in order to go as fast as some typists do it has to be this way or it could slow things down as much as 30 words per minute(wpm).  Hope this helps you

Answer 3

A long time ago, back in the typewriter days, there were a few people who got together and decided the best way to arrange the letters on the keyboard. The did this by deciding which letters would be used the most and they put those in the easiest to reach positions.

That's it in a nutshell!

Answer 4

Early typewriters jammed easily, so the designers came up with a keyboard that had commonly used letters far away from each other.

This meant that the typewriters were actually slower to type on, but they didn't jam as often.

Nowadays keyboards don't jam, so people have invented alternatives such as the Dvorak keyboard.

Once you've got used to them, these are incredibly fast to type on (much faster than the one I'm using). The trouble is the whole world's grown up with qwerty and it would be a nightmare to change.

Answer 5

to make it easy to type  

Answer 6

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.

I put this answer together from different sources to give the most accurate reason for why the letters are arranged the way they are.

Answer 7

When the keyboard was originally invented, they were used by journalists typing for newspapers on typewriters.

The trouble was, they got so fast at typing, the mechanisms of the typewriter would jam. To slow them down and to stop the machines jamming, they jumbled the letters up. After that it just stuck.

By the way - Not all countries that use standard letters of keyboards (ie not Arabic or Greek) use QWERTY key layouts. The French keyboard is called AZERTY.

Answer 8

It's all part of the QWERTY setup that some guy invented long ago. I think it goes according to the most common words used in the English language. Think about the word "THE." Imagine how spread out the letters would be if it wasn't in its current setup and instead in alphabetical order.

Answer 9

Because typists on manual typewriters became too fast and would jam the levers that strike the letters.

Answer 10

Most keyboards now use the QWERTY system, which arranges the keys so as to minimize typewriter lever jams on manual units while also allowing for quick typing by giving prefference to common letters. We could now use a different layout with computers, but at this point everyone just knows QWERTY so it stays because it's the path of least resistance. Dvorak is a competing layout standard which promises greater speeds for touch typists, but it just can't catch on because everyone's so invested in QWERTY.