Is the QWERTY letter arrangement of the keyboard better then other letter arrangements? What are their origins & what should be used?
QWERTY is the International standard keyboard arrangement. (The top row of letters from left to right is QWERTY). It was developed by the inventor and manufacturer of the typewriter (Sholes & Remington) in about 1875. This arrangement was created to enable typists to type faster by eliminating type bar jams. (There is a myth that QWERTY was done to slow down the operators. That myth is totally false.) The QWERTY arrangement was actually the result of rearranging the type bars in the type bar basket so that the type bars for frequently used letter combinations would go to the platen strike point from different angles, and thereby reduce the jamming that occurred with frequent letter combinations moving from the same angle. People can type very fast with QWERTY. Even on those old typewriters people were typing over 80 words a minute. There aren’t many people who can make their fingers fly faster than that. Manufacturers of computers sell them with the QWERTY letter arrangement on the key
