+61 The letters on a keyboard is placed really random. Amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

They're placed so that the most commonly used letters aren't bunched together, which was a problem in the days of typewriters because if you hit two keys too close together they'd jam. THE MORE YOU KNOW.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Answer thief.

by Anonymous 14 years ago

thanks for the information

by Anonymous 14 years ago

But R and T are close to each other and are used commonly O:

by Anonymous 14 years ago

The letters on a keyboard are* placed really randomly*

by Anonymous 14 years ago

your grammar is terrible,amirite?

by Anonymous 14 years ago

I'm not english. Sorry

by Anonymous 14 years ago

Yeah! Fuck you ANON. How many languages do YOU know?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Not randomly, someone did a study of which way is the hardest for a human brain to remember, back when they had type writers and they kept jamming up, because people were typing too fast. To slow them down, the qwerty keyboard was created. And even though we don't have that problem anymore, we kept it, ffs y.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I read a few years ago that is actually not true.. I think it had something to do with the original typewriter though, but it wasn't just to prevent people from typing too quickly.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I think it was something like this: http://home.earthlink.net/~dcrehr/whyqwert.html

by Anonymous 11 years ago

Oh god, please don't read this, it's from two years ago - I KNOW MY GRAMMAR NOW, PROMISE!

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I thought it was placed most used letters closest to the hand and least used letter further away

by Anonymous 11 years ago