The standard typewriter keyboard layout used throughout the ... people from typing too fast and jamming the mechanical keys. The QWERTY layout was included in the drawing for Sholes' patent ...

It isn't easy to type "QWERTY" on a qwerty keyboard. My left-hand little finger holds the shift key, then the other fingers of my left hand clumsily crab sideways across the upper row. Q-W-E-R-T-Y.

A layout for text keyboards that's designed to be more compact that traditional QWERTY, to fit onto smaller devices. A 20-key layout puts letters in the same basic arrangement as QWERTY, but has ...

Either way, the qwerty keyboard gained familiarity among the masses. This led to its adoption on electronic keyboards on computers. This is the keyboard that has become a key component of all our ...