+569 You look at your keyboard and wonder," How did they choose in what order the letters would be?", amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I'm not 100% sure but I think awhile ago they were in alphabetical order and people were typing to fast and jamming the type writers so they put the most common letters farther apart so it would take longer to type

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You're close. What they actually did was studied which letters usually appeared together, and moved those letters as far from each other as possible, so as to stop typewriters from jamming. It wasn't to make the typing slower, just to make the metal arm come from not-so-similar angles, so that they wouldn't get stuck.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

When the guy who designed the typewriter was designing it, he bought several best selling books and counted the letters in the books and assigned each letter a place on the typewriter by how often they were used. The most used letters were placed where your strongest finger, your pointer finger is, and so on and so forth for the rest of the home row keys and such. YOUKNOW.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Actually, the most common letters are on the outide, unless you think that y and u and j are the most common.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

You're close. What they actually did was studied which letters usually appeared together, and moved those letters as far from each other as possible, so as to stop typewriters from jamming.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

^ that was confusing. i used to want the keyboard to be in alphabetical order till i realized that would be mad hard

by Anonymous 13 years ago

i swear i was just thinking that and was going to put it in

by Anonymous 13 years ago

the letters are arranged in what scientific studies have proven to be the easiest order to memorize...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

now I do

by Anonymous 13 years ago

They made it difficult on pupose.

by Anonymous 13 years ago