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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
to keep the hammers from hitting each other and jamming.
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
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.
The reason the keyboard is the way it is, is purely because that was the first way a typewriter was made. The problem was that commonly used keys would clash together. So to stop that happening, Sholes (the guy who made the typewriter) separated common keys to stop this. Now, we whinge about it, but everyone's used to it.