alcazar

iTrader: (2)

...........QWERTY????

Not everyone IS a typist, or wants to be, and surely now with electronics, we could type faster if keys were alphabetically arranged?

so why can't I buy an ABCDEF keyboard???????

Alcazar

StickyMicky

because when you type, its the best way of placeing the keys to type the majority of words, the fastest

actualy i made that up and i cant rember the real reason why, but there is a real reason

M J B

The QWERTY layout is a fine example of a fossil. It is
sometimes said that it was designed to slow down the typist,
but this is wrong; it was designed to allow *faster* typing -
under a constraint now long obsolete. In early typewriters,
fast typing using nearby type-bars jammed the mechanism. So
Sholes fiddled the layout to separate the letters of many
common digraphs (he did a far from perfect job, though; "th",
"tr", "ed", and "er", for example, each use two nearby keys).
Also, putting the letters of "typewriter" on one line allowed
it to be typed with particular speed and accuracy for demos.
The jamming problem was essentially solved soon afterward by a
suitable use of springs, but the keyboard layout lives on.

MJB

Hammy Hamster

Prise all the keys off, then re-attach them into your preferred positions.

Buckrogers

have no idea how and why the keys are arranged as they are. Keyboard layout has been transfered from manual typewriters which have been around donkeys years. A proper typist can type 100 to 150+ words per minute.....not me thou!

StickyMicky

ahhh thats it
i rember sumthing about typewriters and jamming

2000 sport

iTrader: (1)

not all qwerty.. there are dvorak keyboards too.. can`t remember much about them though..

ajm

It may be weird, but you get used to it though.... I had a Blackberry pda thingy with an ABCD keyboard and, apart from the size of the keyboard, I found it much slower to find the letters! (and yes I DO know the alphabet! )

BexTait

I think there is/were some around, but I don't think people got them cos they are used to the qwerty keyboard so typing with an abcde... one took longer
Bex

David Lock

But there doesn't seem to be a standard for numeric keypads. Calculators and adding machines seem to be
789
456
123
0


but credit card terminals for example are

123
456
789
0

Confusing if you are busy and switching from one to another. I expect Brussels will come up with the answer.

wrxtankie

My Keyboard is a QWERTZ and it has other buttons too. öä LOL

farmer1

Just to let you know, on most keyboards you can actually move the keys.

Last year I was using the Divorak(sp) format, but as I was so much quicker at Quert I went back to it.

farmer1

You can buy an A B C D E F G keyboard though and they usually make sounds...

Chris_

David
The upside down numbers on a keyboard has always confused me too, phones and calculators are all the other way up.

Dont you get things changed you lot, it's taken me 1/2 an hour just to get this typed

BMWhere?

Damn, you beat me too it
Bottom row is YXCVB
And you missed out ßü & €