Root of all evil. Ethical conundrums. This sporting life. Stage and screen. Birds and the bees. As the original typewriters were mechanically slower than a reasonably quick typist the keys were arranged to slow the typist down. Hence the common letters, a, s and e are used by the third and fourth finger of the left hand. Columb Healy, Staining Lancs Because typists have been trained on Qwerty keyboards since the s and noone can be bothered retraining them.
Sholes, came up with a layout that suoted the unwieldy mechanical instrument of the type. There is also a rumour that the word "typewriter" coule be typed quickly since all the letters were on one row. Eoin C. The logic of the qwerty layout was based on letter usage in English rather than letter postion in the alphabet. Peter Brooke, Kinmuck Scotland The "qwerty" keyboard arrangement stems from mechanical typewriters. The keys are arranged to make fast typing difficult as old typewriters would easily jam.
Of course humans being adaptable sorts have learned to overcome this obstructionist system and now some folks type faster than they talk, or even think. R Kenig, London UK Because when typing in English don't know about other languages you use some characters such as vowels far more frequently than others such as Z or X , and the keyboard is designed to help you reach the most frequently used keys most easily.
However, to truly benefit from this you need to learn to touch type and stop looking at the keys and prodding away with one finger. Once you learn to touch type you will wonder how you managed before. Mary, Glasgow Scotland They are arranged randomly because manual typewriters tended to jam if the user typed too fast - therefore the arrangement was intended to slow early typists down.
Now, of course, we want to be able to typer faster faster faster, so why change what we're all used to? Julie F, London because fingers do not read from left to right miche, scotland The keys on a qwerty board were designed when typewriters were mechanically driven, secretaries at the time were apparently so efficient that the arms carrying the characters and attached to the keys often got entangled, requiring the ministrations of an expensive engineer.
The answer, put them where you least expect them! Fiona Bell, Nuneaton Warwickshire This is an easy one. The qwerty typewriter keyboard was designed to keep letters commonly used together away from each other to prevent jamming. Computer keyboards followed this because people are used to it and don't want to relearn typing, whether for a keyboard in alphabetical order or on one of those ones with all the commonly used letters in the easy to reach places.
Richard Smeltzer, Hamilton Canada This is a relic from the distant days of typewriters. The most frequently used letters were evenly spaced across the keyboard in order to reduce the amount of times the printing hammers jammed. Due to the fact that the eras of typewriters and computers overlapped considerably it was probably thought best not to alter the layout of the more modern keyboard, despite the jamming problem no longer existing. Richard, London England Those of you who have used an old mechanical typewriter will remember how typing too fast caused all the keys to stack on top of one another, effectively jamming the machine.
Early typewriters did have the keys in alphabetical order, but it was found that the keys jammed very easily with this arrangement. There the most frequently used letters are put to the upper and middle rows. All vowels are under the left hands while consonants are under the right.
Hand pressure becomes balanced. It gave a chance to return the alphabetic order layout. However, people who worked with typewriters now would have to get accustomed to the new arrangement. In pre-computers era students were not required to do their homework with typewriters, they did everything by hand. The main reason is that typewriters were rather expensive and not so common as, for example, laptops are today.
So major part of students body had no access to this automatized substitute of hand writing. Difference between Software and Hardware. The most desirable trait in the keyboard is to type by using alternating hands. It means when one hand types a letter, the other hand prepares to type the next letter. This thing makes the typing process faster and more efficient. This thing can create jamming issues. This issue is related to the Dvorak keyboard.
This thing increases the chances of involuntary repetitions. As a result, the speed of the typists decreases and it increases errors.
Tweet Share Share Share. Next « Prev Post. I love being able to touch type. It has helped me all my life, first as a student, then in everything I have done since.
Find software that you like, and put in some practice. It may seem hard at first, but persist and you will soon get good at it. Find a friend or two and do it together. Perhaps make it a competition. Read more: Curious Kids: why do eggs have a yolk? Hello, curious kids! Ask an adult to send your question to curiouskids theconversation. Please tell us your name, age and which city you live in.
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