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why is keyboard is like that????

can i anyone explain me why keyboard is not made in proper arangment of alphabets like A B C D why it is made in improper way like this Q W E R . and who invented keyboard like this.

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Before keyboards there were typewriters. The typewriter could only handle someone typing but so fast on it to start. A person came up with the arrangement of keys to keep people from typing too fast and making the typewriter malfunction. Today we don't have to worry about that but, we still use the same kind of keyboard layout because of tradition.
We call that QWERTY keyboard, it was developed by christopher sholes. Why it was not arranged in abcd? because sholes arranged the letters according to how frequent they are used in typong words, he also separated the most commonly used letters so that it will be easier to type.
s my dear friend Frequently used pairs of letters were separated in an attempt to stop the typebars from intertwining and becoming stuck, thus forcing the typist to manually unstick the typebars and also frequently blotting the document[1]. The home row (ASDFGHJKL) of the QWERTY layout is thought to be a remnant of the old alphabetical layout that QWERTY replaced.
Keyboards are arranged so that the most common keys are on the home row. This way one can type more efficiently! There is this keyboard called the DVORAK keyboard, and it's arranged with all the vowels on the home row, and you are supposedly able to type WAY faster because of how the letters are even more efficiently arranged. Ask Wikipedia who invented the modern keyboard.

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