The answer is this: Sauers built a typewriter, strangely found a typist normal keystrokes are always out of order. To solve this problem, Sauers went to his brother-in-law, a mathematician and schoolteacher, to ask for help. His brother-in-law came up with a solution: to separate the common letters on the keyboard, so that the speed of keystrokes would be slightly slower and the malfunctions would be minimized.
Sauers gladly took his brother-in-law's advice and put the letters in a strange QWERTY order. Telling the public about the fact that the letters had to be jumbled up to avoid a malfunction might have been embarrassing for Sauers. So he cleverly played the trick of saying that this was the most scientific way to speed up people's typing.
In fact, Sauers's claim has been recognized by authorities on the history of typewriters in the UK as "one of the greatest deceptions of all time" and "an outright lie".
Strangely enough, the more scientific keyboards that differed from Sauers's design were lost to history, while people grew accustomed to using the oddly organized keyboards.
People spent centuries trying to invent typewriters. In England in 1714, Henry Mill patented a machine called "an artificial machine or instrument for transcribing letters, by which they may be written as if they were written, either singly, or in succession, and all the contents of which may be neatly and accurately transcribed on paper or parchment, in capitals". and all written matter can be neatly and accurately transcribed in capital letters on paper or parchment, in a manner not unlike printing". That machine probably couldn't be bought because no one could remember its name.
The first typewriter in use was patented in the United States in 1868 by Christopher Latham Shores. The first typewriter in use was patented in the United States in 1868 by Christopher Latham Shoals. His machine was called a typewriter. It had a movable frame, a lever to turn the typewritten paper, and a keyboard arranged in alphabetical order.
But Sholes had a problem. On his original model, its "ABC" keys were arranged in such a way that they often clogged up when the typist struck them quickly. Shoals didn't know how to keep the keys from interfering with each other, and his solution was to keep the typist from typing too fast. Shoals asked his brother-in-law to rearrange the keyboard so that the most commonly used letters were not too close together, and so that the lead linkage could move in opposite directions so that they would not collide and clog the machine. The new arrangement was the QWERTY arrangement used by typists today. Of course, Scholes claimed that the new arrangement was scientific and improved speed and efficiency. In fact, the only efficiency it improved was that it slowed typists down, since typing almost any word in the English language required the typist's fingers to travel longer distances across the keyboard.
The advantages of the typewriter certainly outweighed the disadvantages of the keyboard. Typists quickly memorized the strange arrangement of letters, and the typewriter was an instant success. By the time typists had memorized the new arrangement of letters and typing speeds had increased, the technology of typewriting had improved and the keys were no longer as easily clogged as they had been in the beginning.
In today's eyes, the keyboard invented by Scholes is not very good, and the arrangement of the letters has too many shortcomings. For example, the 10 most commonly used letters in the English language, there are 8 from the prescribed finger position is too far, is not conducive to improving the typing speed; In addition, the keyboard needs to be typed with the left hand into the letters of the discharge is too much, because the average person is "right-handed", the English language only three thousand words can be typed with the left hand, so it is very awkward to use. Some people have made statistics, using the QWERTY keyboard, a skilled typist 8 hours of finger movement distance up to 25.7 kilometers, after a day of exhaustion. Unfortunately, thousands of people's habits into nature, QWERTY keyboard today still firmly occupy the computer input field, although some people have long been designed to more scientific arrangement of the keys, but never become the climate. Modern computer keyboards don't have metal rods or other cumbersome features, which is something that Sholes didn't expect.
Many people are puzzled by the alphabetical order of computer keyboards: B is not next to A, and P and Q, which are supposed to be connected, are on opposite sides of the keyboard, far away from each other. In fact, the original design concept of this keyboard is to allow you to play fast!
At present, the public generally use the keyboard called "fast hoof keyboard", the original "QWERTY", has anyone found that this word looks a little familiar and a little strange, in fact, it is the first row of letters on the keyboard combination. See the following three rows of letters:
Q W E R T Y U I O P
A S D F G H J K L
Z X C V B N M
The first typewriters were introduced in 1868, and this is the order in which the letters of the keyboards of all computer keyboards, or the keyboards of the English typewriters, are arranged. The interested reader may wonder why the 26 letters are arranged in such an irregular way. It's hard to memorize and hard to master. The original keyboard is basically in accordance with the alphabetical order, but in order to fear that the typist to type too fast, so that the mechanical rod supporting the keyboard collision caused by failure, so adjust the position of some letters, the formation of today's model. It is said that the reason is this:
In the 1870s, Sholes (Sholes Co.) was the largest specialized manufacturer of typewriters. Due to the lack of mechanical process at that time, so that the keys in the hit after the slow rebound, once the typist hit the keys too fast, it is easy to happen that the two keys are twisted together phenomenon, you must be very careful with their hands to separate them, which seriously affects the speed of typing. For this reason, the company often receives complaints from customers.
In order to solve this problem, the designers and engineers have been very difficult, because there is no way to increase the speed of the keys. Later, a clever engineer suggested: the reason for the typewriter strangulation, on the one hand, of course, is the slow return speed of the keys, and on the other hand, the typist's keystroke speed is too fast. Since we can't increase the speed of key return, why don't we try to reduce the speed of the typist's keystrokes? This is definitely a new idea. There are many ways to reduce the speed of a typist's keystrokes, the simplest of which is to disorganize the 26 letters of the alphabet by placing the more commonly used letters under the clumsier fingers, e.g., the letter "O" is the third most frequently used letter in the English language, but it is placed under the ring finger of the right hand; the letters "S" and "S" and the letters "S" and "S" are placed under the right hand's right hand's right hand's right ring finger; and the letters "S" and "S" are placed under the right hand's left finger. The letters "S" and "A", also very frequently used letters, are given to the ring and little fingers of the clumsiest left hand. For the same reason, the letters "V", "J" and "U", which are less frequently used, were given to the index finger, which is the most flexible.
As a result, this "QWERTY" combination of keyboards was born, and gradually finalized. Later, thanks to developments in materials technology, the keys could be bounced back much faster than the typist could hit them, but the alphabetical order of the keyboard could not be changed.
This arrangement does bring a lot of typing problems for beginners, in fact, as early as 1936, someone noticed this problem, also introduced a more ergonomic keyboard, but unfortunately, the Second World War, this keyboard is not on the market before the death of the keyboard, and recently there are groups to actively promote the keyboard called "de Vozak", perhaps in the near future, the new arrangement of the letters will be widely adopted. It is possible that in the near future, the new letter arrangement will be widely adopted. The new alphabet will probably be widely adopted in the near future.