The quirky QWERTY
keyboard

Ever looked at a typewriter or a computer keyboard and wondered about the absurd arrangement of alphabet? It’s called the QWERTY design because the letters Q, W, E, R, T, and Y appear in a row on the keyboard.

This design was proposed primarily to slow down typists. Typists tended to jam the early typewriters when their fingers flew too fast over the keyboard.

Remington Sewing Machine Company was the first to manufacture typewriters with the QWERTY format. Soon, the market was flooded with QWERTY keyboards and the number of skilled QWERTY typists increased.

Thus, the keyboard, designed to slacken the speed of a typist, has become the most popular model among typists and aspiring typists.