Why exactly do we still use qwerty style keyboards? We don’t use typewriters anymore.

Question

I honestly don’t get why the heck we use this stupid layout… please somebody help me understand.

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Answer 1

I assume that typewriters wouldn’t work with computers, that and the fact that typewriters couldn’t really do backspaces.

I know that people make custom mechanical keyboards with their own layouts, that might be closer to what you want.

As for the qwerty layout, that might just have been because it’s been around for a long time.