Wherever there are letters, we are used to seeing that they are in some kind of understandable order. For example, alphabetically. But on the keyboard, they seem to be in complete disarray: QWERTY and QWERTY do not seem familiar to us at all. To understand why this is happening, you need to look into history.
Instructions
Step 1
In such a strange, at first glance, order, the letters were arranged by the inventor of the Remington 1 typewriter, Christopher Sholes. The first such machine went on sale in 1874. And all models before that were equipped with an alphabetic keyboard. It's just that typists, who quickly mastered a new device, typed too quickly. This led to the "confusion" of the then imperfect hammers of the machine.
Scholl simply "jumbled" the letters so that the most used letters were farther from each other. For example "A" and "O" are on opposite sides of the keyboard.
The goal was achieved - the hammers no longer intersect in the trajectories. Over time, the design problem disappeared, but the principle of keyboard placement remained.
Step 2
Typewriters were not produced in Russia in the 1870s. They were supplied from abroad. However, the letters were Russian and they were arranged in a different way. The most frequent vowels are already in the center: "A", "I", "O". And "Y" and "b" on the edges of the keyboard. So we can assume that our layout is more optimal.
Step 3
Hasn't anyone bothered about the QWERTY imperfection problem? Sure! There were a lot of inventors. One of the best attempts is the Dvorak layout, invented already in 1936. According to the developers, it significantly reduces work fatigue.
