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Why are the keys QWERTY arranged on the keyboard the way they are?
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∙ 12y ago
Its not in any specific order
The man who made the keyboard made it by the way number of times we use the letters. So the "Home Row" is made up of letters that we use most often. So QWERTY is just a coincidence.
Andreane Homenick
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∙ 11y agoWhen typewriters were first invented and manufactured all the letters were in order. However, the QWERTY system of arranging all the letters so that the left and right hands could reach the common ones easily was developed later on, before computers were even around. The QWERTY arrangement allows the person typing to hit a common key like "f" or "t" or "i" easily for convenience, while the less-common characters like "q" and "x" are in harder-to-reach spots that the hand has to move to reach.
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∙ 11y agoThe qwerty keyboard was originally invented because early typewriters would jam if you typed too quickly on them, and the inventor therefore wanted to arrange the keys at random, to make the letters harder to find, so that people would type more slowly. After large numbers of people were trained on this keyboard, it became too well established to get rid of, even though the original reason for its existence is no longer applicable, and your computer keyboard will never jam, no matter how quickly you may type.
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∙ 12y agobecause the inventor of the keyboards last name was qwerty
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Why are the keys on the QWERTY keyboard are arranged the way they are?
because the inventor of the keyboards last name was qwerty
What are the keys on the QWERTY keyboard arranged the way they are?
its called QWERTY pad because the first six letter on the qwerty pad are Q W E R T Y
Why are keys on the Qwerty keyboard arranged in the way they are?
They were based on the frequency of use and the strength of the fingers. The little fingers don't do much, while the first couple of fingers do most of the work.
Why are the keys on the QWERTY keboard arranged the way they are?
The QWERTY keyboard originates from typewriters. Different key combinations were tried when typewriters were initially released, but often the letters clashed and jammed. The QWERTY design was finalised and proven successful in the late 1800s and has been used since.
Why is the keyboard aranged in the way that it is?
The average keyboard is arranged in Qwerty. Look at the upper left hand corner, and you'll see that on the top line, Qwerty is spelled. I think that Qwerty is the company's name, or the inventor's name.
Why are the keys on the QWERTY keyboard aranged the way they are?
because theywere the first le4ters in the type writer
Why are the keys on the qwerty key board arranged the way they are?
This goes back to the first typewriters in the 1800s that were mechanical manual machines. Originally the keys were arranged in alphabetical order. However typing english text on such a keyboard resulted in too many hammer clash jams (adjacent hammers would get stuck against each other and the typist would have to stop and unjam the machine). The fix, after some experimentation, was to jumble the keys into the modern "qwerty" order so that it was very rare for adjacent keys to be typed in sequence.
Can you explain what qwerty mobile is?
Qwerty keyboard is the standard keyboard designed for typewriters and or cellphones. It contains the letters in the top row of the keys. It was designed in this manner back in 1868 by Christopher Sholes , when he invented the typewriter keys. It was designed this way to prevent sticking of the keys, although it did slow down the speed in which typing could occur.
What is the official name of the keyboard?
As far as I know, the official name of a computer typing keyboard is the Qwerty Keyboard. This is due to the top alphabetic line's first six letters. They are arranged in this way to separate the mostly used keys as in the type writer days, when people became fast typers, the needle kept getting jammed.
7 Why were the keys on the keyboard arranged the way they are today?
to keep the hammers from hitting each other and jamming.
Why are the keyboard arranged?
Well this is an ambiguous answer but is on track. It has been found that the current QWERTY layout of the keyboard is optimised for humans when processing information: The QWERTY design is based on a layout created by Christopher Latham Sholes in 1873 in Milwaukee there are some contemporary alternatives: instead having the sequence "DHIATENSOR" in the home row, these 10 letters being capable of composing 70% of the words in the English language. but to date they have not been widley adopted
Why are the keys on a QWERTY keyboard not arranged in alphabetical order?
The "QWERTY" keyboard (named for the first 6 letters on the top row) was developed to slow down typists on old manual typewriters. With a regular ABCDE.. keyboard setup they would type too fast and cause the keys to jam. With the QWERTY setup they typed slower and prevented key jams. It became the accepted standard and persists even after electric typewriters & computers made the original reason irrelevant.
