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so im wondering how come keyboards letters are setup the way they’re. why wouldnt they be in abc order?
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QWERTY was used to reduce the frequency of typebar clashes.
The QWERTY keyboard layout was devised and created in the early 1870s by Christopher Sholes, a newspaper editor and printer who lived in Milwaukee. With the assistance of his friends Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule he built an early writing machine for which a patent application was filed in October 1867. However, Sholes' “Type Writer” had many defects: the printing point was located beneath the paper carriage, and so was invisible to the operator. Consequently, the tendency of the typebars to clash and jam if struck in rapid succession was a particularly serious problem, in that the mishap would only be discovered when the typist raised the carriage to inspect what had been typed.
Sholes struggled for the next six years to perfect his invention, making many trial-and-error rearrangements of the original machine's alphabetical key arrangement in an effort to reduce the frequency of typebar clashes. Eventually he arrived at a four-row, upper case keyboard approaching the modern QWERTY standard. In 1873 Sholes' backer, James Densmore, succeeded in selling manufacturing rights for the Sholes-Glidden “Type Writer” with E. Remington and Sons and within the following few months the keyboard layout was finalised by Remington's mechanics. Their adjustments included placing the “R” key in the place previously allotted to the period mark, thus enabling salesmen to impress customers by pecking out the brand name “TYPE WRITER” from one keyboard row. Vestiges of the original alphabetical layout remained in the “home row” sequence FGHJKL.
There was no particular technological stipulation for the QWERTY layout, since at the time there were ways to make a typewriter without the “up-stroke” typebar mechanism that had required it to be devised. Not only were there rival machines with “down-stroke” and “frontstroke” actions that gave a visible printing point, the problem of typebar clashes could be circumvented totally as Thomas Edison did in his 1872 electric print-wheel device which later became the basis for Teletype machines, while Lucien Stephen Crandall, the inventor of the second typewriter to come on to the American market, arranged his machine's type on a cylindrical sleeve, and the Hammond typewriter of 1884 used a “type-shuttle”, which was a semi-circular strip of hardened rubber (later light metal), and the Blickensderfer typewriter of 1893 used a type wheel. The early Blickensderfer's “Ideal” keyboard was also non-QWERTY, instead having the sequence “DHIATENSOR” in the home row, these 10 letters being capable of composing 70% of the words in the English language.
An unfortunate consequence of the QWERTY layout, for right-handed typists, is that many more words can be spelled using only the left hand. In fact, thousands of English words can be spelled using only the left hand, while only a couple of hundred words can be typed using only the right hand. This is helpful for left-handed people.
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this is actually how the typewriters were first designed, so they transferred the pattern to personal. There are some advantages to the way it is set-up. for example all of the vowels are on the top row ( except for a) even w and y. Also if you look at it some letters that are next to each other in the alphabet are still neighbors. dfghjkl are all in their alphabetical order, they are only missing the vowels which are again, on the top row.
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Because they are not in logical order for typing. Letters are strategically placed so that people can type documents at a fast speed using all the fingers of each hand. If you changed the keys to appear alphabetically, it would not make the most sense for the motion of the hands and the strategic location of the letters. The only thing that it would help is for people who can't memorize them to go A,B,C,D,E,F like a school grad kid would do.
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Dvorak went beyond Blickensderfer in arranging his letters according to frequency. Dvorak's home row uses all five vowels and the five most common consonants: AOEUIDHTNS. With the vowels on one side and consonants on the other, a rough typing rhythm would be established as each hand would tend to alternate.
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QWERTY as it's called was patented back in hte late 1800's for typewriters. Frequently-used pairs of letters were separated in an attempt to stop the typebars from intertwining and becoming stuck, thus forcing the typist to manually unstick the typebars and also frequently blotting the document.
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its kond off kool to mix it and its easier to learnt to type faster , if it was in order it will suck cuz we are not living in fantasy lol everythings a mess !! :P:P
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QWERTY
http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwe…
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Just have a read of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwerty
Although it was made liek that originally so that the word typewriter would be spelt using only the first line…
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they should be in scale order ,unless your talking about the roots of the chords
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