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The QWERTY keyboard is not random. It was designed by Christopher Sholes in in the early 1870's. He was trying to design a type writer that didn't jam up with rapid succession of the type bars moving (a fast typist). After trial and error for several years, Sholes eventually developed the QWERTY keyboard that had the lowest rate of jamming of all designs he tried. For more information, search Wikipedia for QWERTY. Thank you.

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because if it was in ABC order then the old type writers wouldn't have been able to keep up with the speed of out typing and it would have gotten jammed. so they created QWERTY board to get us to type slower

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The letters are not completely random. The reason the layout of a standard keyboard is laid out the way it is dates back to the early typewriters. A problem faced with early typewriters is that sometimes the hammers that punched the ink to the paper would hit each other. Moving many of the keys that are commonly used together apart helped keep the hammers from jamming. This is the problem that the "qwerty" keyboard layout was designed to solve. "qwerty" is named as such for the keys at the top left spell out "qwerty".

There are however other layouts that have been designed and some believe are faster. For instance, right now I am using a Dvorak layout that keeps all the vowels on the left side. This layout was designed with the keyboard in mind. It was designed to minimize finger travel and did not worry about hammers jamming since this technology was obsolete when the layout was designed. Another popular alternative is Colemack which shares similar benefit, but also keeps common shortcut keys in the same place, such as for copy and pasting.

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It was designed as to make typing more effective - commonly used keys closer to the middle, etc. There was actually another keyboard designed which was more effective, but as everyone used the qwerty keyboard, it did not take off.

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The origin of the layout that almost every current computer keyboard uses can be traced all the way back to the late 19th century.

In 1874, Remington and Sons manufactured its first typewriter, the Remington No. 1. It was one of the earliest examples of the QWERTY keyboard setup, which was designed to make typing more efficient.

Over time, more and more typing devices adopted this same system until it eventually became the international standard.

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They are mixed up because people type to fast when they are not mixed up. :)

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