QWERTY keyboard

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The QWERTY keyboard is the most common keyboard layout. It was designed and patented by Christopher Sholes in 1868 and sold to Remington in 1873. Its name comes from the first six letters of its upper row of keys.

The QWERTY distribution was designed with the purpose of getting people to write faster by distributing the letters so that both hands could be used to write most of the words. Another of the main objectives was to separate the most used letters from the central area of the keyboard, to prevent the first generation typewriters from getting stuck, and although today it is not necessary, this distribution is still used mostly in the write and on computer keyboards.

On this keyboard, according to the most widespread typing technique, in the resting position, four fingers of each hand are placed on the central row of keys. In order to find this position without having to look at the keyboard, the keys corresponding to the index fingers of each hand (F and J) usually have some distinctive touch feature.

This keyboard layout was taken to computers to more easily move typewriters in offices. In this way, the people in charge of 'typing' documents still knew how to handle the new computer keyboards.

The QWERTY keyboard has versions for different languages. There are countries, such as Germany, that exchange the "Y" key for the "Z" key, which becomes a QWERTZ keyboard. In France and Belgium there are more changes and the first six alphabetic keys have the sequence AZERTY. In the Spanish and Latin American provision the letter "Ñ" is included just to the right of the "L", in the Portuguese it includes the "Ç" to the left of the enter. In Japan, it uses kana characters, printed on the side of Latin characters and numbers, but some special characters were moved relative to the English keyboard.

See also
AZERTY
QWERTZ
HCESAR
Dvorak keyboard
external links
The Dvorak Zine Detailed history of the QWERTY and Dvorak keyboards in cartoon form (in English)
Keyboard comparator Allows you to enter text and calculate the speed it would take depending on the keyboard
QWERTY keyboard which is the QWERTY keyboard and why it is called that
QWERTY Detailed history.
Why we write as we do Diario El Confidencial de España