22 Facts About QWERTY keyboard

The QWERTY design is based on a layout created for the Sholes and Glidden typewriter and sold to E Remington and Sons in 1873.

QWERTY keyboard layout was devised and created in the early 1870s by Christopher Latham Sholes, a newspaper editor and printer who lived in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

The QWERTY keyboard layout was finalized within a few months by Remington's mechanics and was ultimately presented:.

QWERTY keyboard layout became popular with the success of the Remington No 2 of 1878, the first typewriter to include both upper and lower case letters, using a shift key.

One popular but unverified explanation for the QWERTY keyboard arrangement is that it was designed to reduce the likelihood of internal clashing of typebars by placing commonly used combinations of letters farther from each other inside the machine.

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QWERTY keyboard layout depicted in Sholes's 1878 patent is slightly different from the modern layout, most notably in the absence of the numerals 0 and 1, with each of the remaining numerals shifted one position to the left of their modern counterparts.

Contrary to popular belief, the QWERTY keyboard layout was not designed to slow the typist down, but rather to speed up typing.

QWERTY keyboard was designed for English, a language with accents appearing only in a few words of foreign origin.

The standard US QWERTY keyboard has no provision for these at all; the need was later met by the so-called "US-International" QWERTY keyboard mapping, which uses "dead keys" to type accents without having to add more physical keys.

US QWERTY keyboard layout has a second Alt key instead of the AltGr key and does not use any dead keys; this makes it inefficient for all but a handful of languages.

The Latvian QWERTY keyboard layout is most commonly used; its layout is the same as Latin ones, but with a dead key, which allows entering special characters.

On Macintosh computers, the Norwegian and Norwegian extended QWERTY keyboard layouts have a slightly different placement for some of the symbols obtained with the help of the ? Shift or ? Option keys.

Brazilian computer QWERTY keyboard layout is specified in the ABNT NBR 10346 variant 2 and 10347 (numeric portion) standards.

Essentially, the Brazilian QWERTY keyboard contains dead keys for five variants of diacritics in use in the language; the letter C, the only application of the cedilla in Portuguese, has its own key.

Essentially, the Portuguese QWERTY keyboard contains dead keys for five variants of diacritics; the letter C, the only application of the cedilla in Portuguese, has its own key, but there are a dedicated key for the ordinal indicators and a dedicated key for quotation marks.

Spanish QWERTY keyboard layout is used to write in Spanish and in other languages of Spain such as Catalan, Basque, Galician, Aragonese, Asturian and Occitan.

Latin American Spanish QWERTY keyboard layout is used throughout Mexico, Central and South America.

However, the Finnish multilingual QWERTY keyboard adds new letters and punctuation to the functional layout.

Norwegian QWERTY keyboard largely resembles the Swedish layout, but the O and A are replaced with Ø and Æ.

UK Extended QWERTY keyboard uses mostly the AltGr key to add diacritics to the letters a, e, i, n, o, u, w and y as appropriate for each character, as well as to their capitals.

Several alternatives to QWERTY keyboard have been developed over the years, claimed by their designers and users to be more efficient, intuitive, and ergonomic.

Half QWERTY keyboard is a combination of an alpha-numeric keypad and a QWERTY keypad, designed for mobile phones.