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The letters on the earliest keyboards werearranged alphabetically, but were re-arrranged to reduce the frequency of jams and clashes in early mechanical typewriters. See Wikipedia article "QWERTY": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY
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Are the letters in keyboard arranged?
yes they are
How are the letters on an Arabic keyboard arranged?
The letters on an Arabic keyboard are arranged in exactly the same way as any other keyboard including English, and each Arabic letter corresponds to the correct letter in English.
How are the letters arranged on a French keyboard?
The French type of keyboard is called "azerty" (vs the English "qwerty"). Link goes to image of the layout of the azerty keyboard.
Why were the letter of the keyboard arranged the way they are?
Before keyboards, they used type writers and the letters got jammed so they reorganized the keyboard so the letters wouldn't get jammed when they typed.
How are the letters arranged on a keyboarding?
The French type of keyboard is called "azerty" (vs the English "qwerty"). Link goes to image of the layout of the azerty keyboard.
Why are the letters on a keyboard randomly arranged?
It isn't The QWERTY keyboard was carefully thought out back in the days of mechanical typewriters, where commonly used letters had to placed apart to prevent the moving parts from jamming together.
What type of auto complete list contains those functions that aphabetically match the letters you type following the equal sign?
Formula
Is mnbvcxzlkjhgfdsapoiuytrewq a word?
No. It is the reverse (right-to-left, lower-to-upper) of "qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm", the 26 letters of the English alphabet as arranged on a typing keyboard.
Why are the letters on the keyboard as the are?
The standard North American English keyboard is copied from the standard English language typewriter. The letters were arranged on the typewriter to slow the typist down and prevent keys from jambing. This is called the QWERTY keyboard. The Dvorak keyboard arrangement was designed to permit faster keying, but is not widely used because so many people are comfortable with the QWERTY arrangement.
The typical keyboard is called a?
qwerty keyboard because these letters are the first 5 letters on the keyboard
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.
Why are the letter of the keyboard arranged the way they are?
because they are...
