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Poll for March 04, 2007

"Do you know why the keys on a keyboard are not alphabetically placed?"


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no5,422 (64.3 %)
yes3,008 (35.7 %)

total votes : 8,430 | 47 reaction(s)

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04-03-2007 00:01Olivia_Ka is offline Olivia_Ka 

7,297 posts
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No I don't know !
04-03-2007 00:05blondey73 is offline blondey73 


1,097 posts
woo-hoo second to comment, no I don't know, that's a very good question? How do people come up with these questions?
04-03-2007 00:07chaoscontroler_ is offline chaoscontroler_ 

166 posts
number 24? =OOOO my best ever \o/ not really...but i know there's a type of keyboard where they are in alphabetic order =p
04-03-2007 00:14jcy20 is offline jcy20 

227 posts
no i dont..and if you do...tell me why hahhaa thanks
04-03-2007 00:23princesssarah88 is offline princesssarah88 

8 posts
no, i don't. i wish these polls would have explanations at the end of the voting time to explain the poll! i'd presume it's to make typing easier? anyone else know?
04-03-2007 00:30state0ftheunion is offline state0ftheunion 

102 posts
Originally, the characters on the typewriters he invented were arranged alphabetically, set on the end of a metal bar which struck the paper when its key was pressed. However, once an operator had learned to type at speed, the bars attached to letters that lay close together on the keyboard became entangled with one another, forcing the typist to manually unstick the typebars, and also frequently blotting the document. [1] Sholes solved the jamming problem by rearranging the the keys. A disputed issue is the effect this rearrangement of letters had on maximum typing speed.



from wikipedia.
04-03-2007 00:32state0ftheunion is offline state0ftheunion 

102 posts
oh and also, something about the top row being able to spell out the word "typewriter"
04-03-2007 00:34purple191 is offline purple191 

1 posts
The keys are arrainged this way to slow typists down. Sounds strange, but the early typewritters would get jammed if you typed too fast. Alphabetical order would increase the speed that we can type. We haven't changed because the transition would be to difficult.
04-03-2007 00:52Leif_The_Lucky is offline Leif_The_Lucky 

157 posts
y
04-03-2007 01:13sarahG is offline sarahG 

8 posts
anyone who said no, are you seriouse??
04-03-2007 01:25missulikecrazy is offline missulikecrazy 


2,085 posts
aren't all the letters placed by the ones that are most used?
04-03-2007 01:53Red_is_punk is offline Red_is_punk 

22 posts
its all so the vowels are in easy reach wen u r touch typing i think?

04-03-2007 02:31thanhdinh is offline thanhdinh 

69 posts
no , i don't know
04-03-2007 03:19swmmng is offline swmmng 

120 posts
This was asked only a few months ago! C'mon, staff, get it together.
04-03-2007 03:33azzy is offline azzy 

37 posts
okay, i KNOW we already had this one. thats the only reason i know why (why the keys aren alphabetical on a keyboard)

something to do with typewriters jamming because the keys got ht too quickly because they were in order, so they were changed around so typewriters wouldnt get broken etc.
04-03-2007 03:42Peacefreak is offline Peacefreak 

441 posts
I knew at one point and time but i couldn't remember...and this isn't very common knowledge so i can see a lot of people not knowing it.
04-03-2007 04:41Aluna is offline Aluna 


1,648 posts
This poll was done before, wasn't it?
And, as I said before, I heard that the reason for the keys not to be alphabetically placed is that the position in which they are in the current keyboard model takes into consideration the frequence that certain letters are used (for example, "q" is not frequently used, so it's located in the extreme up and left position of the keyboard). Therefore, this arrangement makes it easier for people to type fast.
04-03-2007 06:12ally_allyya is offline ally_allyya 

201 posts
hahaha...ofcourse i know. we had this before(twice if i am not mistaken)...btw, i learn keyboarding so i have to know
04-03-2007 07:42AlphaDrake is offline AlphaDrake 

193 posts
Yep, and this has been done before
04-03-2007 09:31joz_duhness is offline joz_duhness 

139 posts
tht is lk SOOOOOOOOOO OBVIOUS!!! n ne 1 whu dzn noe!!!! do u hv ur eyez open wen u type!!! lewkz lk cmmn sense, aint commn no mo!!
04-03-2007 10:31joz_duhness is offline joz_duhness 

139 posts
loadz ov ppl hv sd dt v hv hd dis poll b4!!! den y'd de staff repeat it ! i mean i snd a LOT OF suggestions, n my poll never turned up, tho i hd sm reaLLLL gud questions, so staff plz get dow new pollz out now!!!
04-03-2007 11:30something_more is offline something_more 

267 posts
Yup, we learned about it in school for some reason. It goes back to the early typewriter days when the ABCD method was in place but didn't work as well and so they had to change it and it just sort of stayed the same for now with the computer keyboards.
04-03-2007 11:50foreigner is offline foreigner 

24 posts
nope i didn't know and even didn't care but now i do so i'm qul 2
04-03-2007 13:22widadita is offline widadita 


1,228 posts
no idea!!
04-03-2007 13:40grounded_angel is offline grounded_angel 


6,464 posts
If they were alphabetically placed there was no way you could type quickly. At least it's what I always thought.

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