the keyboard

I was just thinking, why is the keyboard arranged in the way that it is? there has to be a story behind it. Does anyone know?

 

It's most believed so typewriter salesman could type "Typewriter" really quick by just using the top line.

 

The letters u use the most are supposed to be easier to reach...when u use both hands and after u first rest/put 8 fingers on the "home row".
left pinky on the "a", left pointer finger on the "f"....right pinky on the ";"...thumbs on spacebar

 

but who the fuck uses the semicolon???? and why is it more precedent than a p??

 

My grade six teacher told us it was because typewriters initially had the keys in alphabetical order but people would type so fast that the strikes would get all stuck together, so they moved the keys around to slow everyone down. He might have been on crack though I don't know...

 

I think the keys you use most are supose to be near your left hand so you type slower because old typers broke becuase people could type so fast atleast i read that on something before (probably wikipedia)

 

A study was made to determine the ideal arragement in the keyboard for maximum efficiency in man-machine system. On the side of machine, sizes of various keyboards, loads for each row as conferred by hands, and fingers were measured. And on the side of man, the physiological capacities of fingers were analyzed. Working area of fingers or motion of upper extramities related to typwriting, anatomical position of the finger phalanges, electromyogramm, tapping rate and compound reaction time were observed on skilled and unskilled typists.

Source:
http://ci.nii.ac.jp/naid/110003750616/en/

 

Its not a logical arrangement.

http://www.theworldofstuff.com/dvorak/

that is

 

The pitch of sound seems to be pretty relevent.

 

^ Oops, wrong keyboard lol

 

I've been using QWERTY keyboards since I was 12-13 years old... and that's probably why I got used to that type of keyboard in time.

 

yes, its a legacy from early mechanical typwriters. the keys were arrainged that way, the most frequently used letters under the weakest fingers, to reduce the frequencey of the mechanisms jaming as they tended to do anyway.

of course there's no logic in keeping that arraingement on even electric typewriters, let alone computer keyboards, other then that generation after generation of touch typest having been trained on it.

like the grandfathering of familiar averdoupolous weights and measures and the cultural inertia against trasitioning to a more accross the board consistent system like s.i./metric.

there are dvorac keyboards, where keys are arrainged with basicly the opposite phylosophy as that of qwerty.

true alphabetic arraingements exist from time to time too, one keyboards such as would be impossible to touch type anyway, but invariably people end up not liking them.

the collective human psychie is just plain wierd.

the currently dominant calander, and most dominant beliefs and idiologies, and the list of examples just goes on and on.

not all traditions are gratuitous, but the most dominant and familiar ones mostly are.

and the qwerty keyboard is one of them.

=^^=
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i use it, although not as much as the first letter of my last name....



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maybe now they're about even

 

Perhaps the functions could be combined?

 

Didn't someone loose an incredible amount of money trying to market that?


Whoever invented that didn't realize that humans are:

1) Too damn lazy to learn a new layout.
2) Already pretty damn efficent with the QWERTY.

I wrote this entire post really fast without even looking at my keyboard. I got this shit down... no DVORAK for me.

 

I remember when we had to memorize the position of the keys for keyboarding class and I just made the top row into my own new word. Qwertyuiop. It means- top letters on keyboard.

 

lol. good one kinky.

 

Swell- I guess another new word might be asdfghjkl meaning middle letters on a keyboard- pronounced "Tori Spelling"

 

i thought it should be pronounced azrael.

 

Me either. I've used the same kind of keyboard since the second grade. I had no idea there was anyother arrangement till I read this thread. Never even thought about it. Once you use something so long it becomes second nature and there's no going back.




Though I would like to know where I can find one of these alternative keyboards......I'd love to switch it with someone elses qwerty when they aren't looking.