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	Poll for December 12, 2005

"Do you know why the keys on a keyboard are placed the way they are?"

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Votes

16,485 (66.6 %)

yes

8,256 (33.4 %)

total votes : 24,741 | 137 reaction(s)

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12-12-2005 00:02 rmillerlpbear
32 posts	#65, yes
12-12-2005 00:04 smileifumeanit
10 posts	#139 Nope...why are they?
12-12-2005 00:07 TheVeronicas
197 posts	#154, best i've ever done!! i know, its sad. they are placed in a manner where it is easy to formulate the american words esier. The letter a is the most used word in the american dictionary or words, therefore it is placed in the middle. The letter q is barely ever used, along with z, x, and v. All these letters are placed out of the middle. The spacebar is placed so that it is accesable by the thumbs. DUHH!! I took computers in like 7th grade n i still remember that!!
12-12-2005 00:07 lovetheyankees2
50 posts	i learned this like a month ago but there in ordor by like how much u usually use them like all the common letter are in the middle and thats y u learn to keep ut hands in the middle and thats y lik z and x and v r on the bottom haha i feel so smart!
12-12-2005 00:16 X9463M
932 posts	so, if i buy a keyboard in....mexico for example, the keys will be placed according to the letters spanish-speaking people use the most? i mean, the keyboards change depending on which country you live(different languages)? it may be a dumb question....but i had to ask
12-12-2005 00:17 6Dollie6
17,554 posts	no idea.
12-12-2005 00:18 Chrisrocks53
13,570 posts	I do now
12-12-2005 00:20 PauxD
17 posts	hahaha NO! keybords have the keys in the same place always!!, but in spanish keybords there are additional letters like -> Ñ/ñ (eñe)
12-12-2005 00:22 X9463M
932 posts	ok....so the explanation they gave before isnt quite right i think. because in all languages we dont use the same letters in the same amount/frequency/whatever...or do we?
12-12-2005 00:25 DaDdY_DoLlaZ
6,059 posts	not a clue...
12-12-2005 00:26 Contenta
2,548 posts	Nope
12-12-2005 00:27 Contenta
2,548 posts	Why?
12-12-2005 00:27 killthemall
849 posts	I'm conffused. keyboards are the same anywhere, but the reason I knew is different In school they told us that when the first keyboard were invented for the typewriter has the keys in another order, but the machine was too slow and didn't work really well... so they change the place so the typewriters were slower... and they get used to it, and never change it have someone heard this?
12-12-2005 00:27 Contenta
2,548 posts	ñañañañañaña (nya)
12-12-2005 00:30 User0069
17 posts	i've heard they just placed it in a random order and just got used to having it like that. they might be changing the whole keyboard letter order for the next generation i think. in like a few years im not sure...
12-12-2005 00:30 X9463M
932 posts	killthemall - yeah! thats what i heard before. makes more sense to me than the other thing they said a few posts above....
12-12-2005 00:31 MetMan
1,576 posts	Killthemall: You are correct... Mechanical typewriters were unable to keep up... So they designed the "normal"/QWERTY-system to make it harder to write fast... Do your homework, kids!
12-12-2005 00:32 Petrol
5,926 posts	no no 68.5% yes 31.5% total votes : 947
12-12-2005 00:34 PauxD
17 posts	yes we do! the letters we use the most are vocal, that is why they are in that place.
12-12-2005 00:50 lil_hannie
247 posts	but there in ordor by like how much u usually use them like all the common letter are in the middle and thats y u learn to keep ut hands in the middle but my A,E,U,I and O are on the outisde not the middle
12-12-2005 00:53 katrina_xoxo
13 posts	actually the keyboards are different in some places in world. when i was in paris it was all messed up to me and made it hard to type..the a was a q..thats all i remember.
12-12-2005 00:55 lil_hannie
247 posts	well, i'm from australia and mine is qwertyuiop[]\ asdfghjkl;' zxcvbnm,./
12-12-2005 00:57 alien48416
19 posts	OK, I learned in school that they're in that order so we can type faster, original typewriters were in alphabetical order, and QWERTY is a lot faster than that. Never heard of the Dvorak, kind of interesting.
12-12-2005 00:58 Gervais66
144 posts	guess what i bought a kick ass keyboard and ate out ur mom believe me there is a HUGE coinsidence
12-12-2005 01:11 haliburg
28 posts	how in the hell am i sopposto no?

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