That's the question dad asked on the first day of his computer class last week. He is forced into learning to operate a laptop at the age of 72 as his children decided to make him 'hi-tech' by gifting him a laptop. Well here is an answer I researched....
The first keyboard was invented by Christopher Scholes, in 1873, to improve calligraphy, but there was a problem: if a person typed very fast, the keys got stuck together and stopped the machine work.Then Scholes designed the QWERTY keyboard, a keyboard that would oblige typists to type more slowly.
To repeat: the keyboard on typewriters and computers was designed so that people would type more slowly, not more quickly.
Christopher Latham Sholes (February 14, 1819 – February 17, 1890) was an American inventor who invented the first practical typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard still in use today. He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician.
The logic behind such an arrangement is that
the alphabets which are most needed can be accessed fast.
QWERTY layout was designed to let people type as quickly as possible, without jamming a mechanical typewriter. As it happens, this same layout is nearly optimal for pure speed, as it tends to cause the fingers and hands to alternate.
A simple A to Z layout, would really slow down people as it would overload some weaker fingers and waste the stronger ones. It would also tend to require more side-to-side motion. Considerable wrist strain is also thought of.
The first keyboard was invented by Christopher Scholes, in 1873, to improve calligraphy, but there was a problem: if a person typed very fast, the keys got stuck together and stopped the machine work.Then Scholes designed the QWERTY keyboard, a keyboard that would oblige typists to type more slowly.
To repeat: the keyboard on typewriters and computers was designed so that people would type more slowly, not more quickly.
Christopher Latham Sholes (February 14, 1819 – February 17, 1890) was an American inventor who invented the first practical typewriter and the QWERTY keyboard still in use today. He was also a newspaper publisher and Wisconsin politician.
The logic behind such an arrangement is that
the alphabets which are most needed can be accessed fast.
QWERTY layout was designed to let people type as quickly as possible, without jamming a mechanical typewriter. As it happens, this same layout is nearly optimal for pure speed, as it tends to cause the fingers and hands to alternate.
A simple A to Z layout, would really slow down people as it would overload some weaker fingers and waste the stronger ones. It would also tend to require more side-to-side motion. Considerable wrist strain is also thought of.
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