Curious Kids: why do we have a QWERTY keyboard instead of putting the letters in alphabetical order?
- Written by Geoff Cumming, Emeritus Professor, La Trobe University
Many other key arrangements have been tried. Some are claimed to be easier to learn or faster to use than QWERTY. But none has proved good enough to beat QWERTY.Flickr/Jeff Eaton, CC BY-SA
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