Why  aren’t the letters on the keyboard in alphabetical order ? 

Most of us were taught that the man who invented the keyboard created QWERTY design to slow typist down.


There are actually two theories to this. The first one starts to make sense when you look at manual typewriters. If someone typed too fast, the keys would jam. QWERTY placed common alphabets at a distance from each other and slowed typists down, so Christopher Scholes put common letters in hard-to-reach spots.


Another theory is that telegraph operators designed the QWERTY layout because it was easier (and faster) to decipher Morse code.


This popular theory was just debunked. According to a new story in The Smithsonian, the QWERTY keyboard was actually created based on the advice of telegraph operators. The first keyboard were being used by telegraph operators to translate morse code and the keyboards were built for that.


The QWERTY controversy is coming to light now, as techies consider the utility of keyboard configuration. The time has come, some say to revise the keyboard for an increasingly mobile world.


The recently unveiled KALQ keyboard for smartphones is made for typing with just your thumbs