to make it unlikely (or at least less likely) to cause hammer clashes and hammer jam ups when typing english language text rapidly using all 10 fingers on manual mechanical typewriters. this is kind of irrelevant on electronic computer keyboards as there are no hammers to jam and much of what is typed bears no resemblance to the english language.
because the inventor of the keyboards last name was qwerty
its called QWERTY pad because the first six letter on the qwerty pad are Q W E R T Y
Modern keyboard keys are arranged according to the QWERTY design by Christopher Sholes.
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.
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.
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.
Because Its How 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.
because theywere the first le4ters in the type writer
the qwerty row keys are q,w,e,r,t,y,u,i,o,p,
Keys - as in a board of keys = keyboard
it is for short called qwerty