The Qwerty Keyboard

This is our first Helpful answers post, and I hope you will like it.

For those of you who have always wondered about "Why do we use the Qwerty Keyboard?", you can now relax and see the answer here.
Some of you may think or just assumed that it is the best keyboard style perfected for speed. This is not the case. There are two important stories here that will make you understand the impact and history of the Qwerty Keyboard. We'll start with why we use it.

I don't really need to go into deep detail here, so I'll just give you the short story. Basically, in the 1870s, an inventor created the QWERTY keyboard because the alphabetical keyboard caused people to type too fast, when the technology was yet to catch up, causing lots of problems and "clashes" with the keys. Eventually, after a long time of trial and error, this keyboard was created with the brand name "TYPE WRITER" being able to be typed only using one row (first row). The Qwerty keyboard is far from being the perfect keyboard, when most people are left (edit, sry I meant Right) handed, and most keys that the English language use a lot of are on the left side.

Now, let's take a look at how people got the misconception of QWERTY being the fastest keyboard around. This is actaully quite ambiguous but it really boils down to a challenge that somebody had from somebody else. It goes like this, someone with the alphabetical keyboard challenged a QWERTY user in a typing contest of some sort. Most people used the 4 finger type and peck method of typing at the time, including the challenger. However, the QWERTY user hired a professional typer who memorized the whole QWERTY layout and who used the 8 finger typing method. I'm sure you can guess who won and how much faster...

And that's the end of this Helpful Answer post. Remember, you can always ask questions in the comments if you'd like to see your own question answered.

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