How QWERTY conquered keyboards
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2017
- There's a big chance your keyboard says QWERTY. In this episode of Vox's Overrated, Phil Edwards investigates the keyboard's history.
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If you've ever been curious about typewriter history, the rise of QWERTY wasn't an accident. Typing and typewriters weren't always around, and the inventor of the QWERTY typewriter layout didn't know it would become the standard.
Over time, however, business reasons and typing education made QWERTY a standard across the industry and, eventually, for the vast majority of typists. Though there are exceptions to QWERTY's domination, for the most part, this keyboard layout remains the default even today.
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This video didn’t actually tell me anything.
Try again later.
None of the videos in this channel do. They just introduce to a topic that has no answer. And no answer means even they don't have the answer.
dude he answered to question, it's qwerty because the typewriter trust chose it. maybe watch to the end before you decide you learned nothing.
Notice how the title is "How QWERTY conquered keyboards"
and not
"Why letters are arranged on the keyboard the way they are"
If you were expecting an answer with the former, you played yourself.
Usually these types of videos have some weird twist or reasoning why something is the way it is. This is just because a bunch of typewriter manufacturers came together and said "hey let's just use that one" I see where you're coming from
It so strange that when typing I know where all the letters, numbers and symbols are located, but when you ask me to recite the keyboard layout I'm lost. Lol
Your fingers know the keyboard.
Yes! I tried it just now
The wonder of muscle memory.
Work for phone keyboards I dont even have to look at the keyboard any more. Ah the talent of many minds
SHULLS? CHRISTOPHER LATHEM SHULLS? WHAT ? THIS GUY ISN'T PRONOUNCING THE CORRECT NAME OF THE INVENTOR OF THE "KEYBOARD'???
GIVE US HIS FULL EXACT PRECISELY= SPELLED NAME, AND WHY ONLY TWO
VIDEOS? THIS GUY DESERVES A HOLIDAY TOO, DON' YOU THINK? SOME GUY OUGHT
TO INVENT LARGER KEYS FOR MEN TO BE ABLE TO USE THEM MORE EASILY, TOO,
DON' TYOU THINK? AND I'M STILL UPSET THAT OUR GOVERNMENTAL REPS CRAMMED FOUR PRESIDENT BIRTHDAYS INTO ONE; THIS GUY DOESN'T HAVE EVEN ONE "DESIGNATED COMMERATIVE DAY" WITH WHICH WE COULD SHOW OUR RESPECT FOR HIS INVENTION " . HOW DOES ONE WRITE TO GOOGLE? TO YOU TUBE? SUPPORT DOESN'T SEEM TO "CARE" . I HAPPEN TO CARE, THAT'S ALL! ANYONE KNOW WHO GIVES A DARN? WAIT!! ONLY TWO VIDEOS ABOUT THE GUY WHO INVENTED "OUR'
KEYBOARDS? WHAT'S GOING ON? COULDN'T WE AT LEAST CRAM ALL OF THEM INTO
AT LEAST "ONE CELEBRATED" HOLIDAY--SUCH AS OUR GOVERNMENT HAS DONE WITH
OUR PRESIDENTS' HAVING TO SHARE BIRTHDAYS ? Who Invented the QWERTY
Keyboard AFTER Qwerty?CHRISTOPHER WHAT? LATHEM SHOLES ?? SPELL IT FOR
US: NOVEMBER 17TH IS APPARENTLY A NEWLY APPOIINTED /ELECTED HOLIDAY FOR SOME ODD REASON BY SOME PERSON; NOW A HOLIDAY-DUH, IT'S MY SISTER'S BIRTHDAY. DO YOU GUYS
REMEMBER THE GUY WHO INVENTED THE ASDFJKLM TYPING FORM? HE WAS A
MILITARY MAN;; WE COULDN'T LIVE TODAY WITHOUT HIM ON THE INTERNET ? HOW
ABOUT A DAY TO CELEBRATE THEY GUY WHO GAVE US THE KEYBOARD ? (EVEN IF
THEY AREN'T LARGE ENOUGH FOR MEN'S FINGERS TO TYPE ON, RIGHT ?) LET'S
FIND HIM, HIS NAME AT LEAST, OK????? THANKS
(15) Who Invented the QWERTY Keyboard? -
UA-camTHEN ASAK DIVORAK ? THE NARRATOR PRONOUNCES HIS NAME, TWO
DIFFERENT WAYS, SO WE WON'T BE ABLE TO KNOW,...DUH, WAS HE ALSO BY
CHANCE RELATED TO THE GREAT COMPOSER ?COMMON VOWELS(spell that so we'll
know, too ? Thanks)
MARK TWAIN WAS THE FIRST PURCHASER OF THE KEYBOARD/TYPEWRITER,
THAT'S INTERESTING; THANK GOD HE GOT A HOLD OF ONE SOON!!WHAT ABOUT A
"SPECIFIC CELEBRATED DAY" FOR MARK TWAIN TOO ?ONLY THREE YOU TUBES
REGARDING THE INVENTION OF THE KEYBOARD, WHICH NONE OF US COULD EXIST ON
THE INTERNET, WITHOUT ??!! ….WAIT, ? THERE ARE
ONLY TWO VIDEOS ABOUT THE GUY WHO INVENTED "OUR' KEYBOARDS? WHAT'S
GOING ON? COULDN'T WE AT LEAST CRAM ALL OF THEM INTO AT LEAST "ONE
CELEBRATED" HOLIDAY--SUCH AS OUR GOVERNMENT HAS DONE WITH OUR
PRESIDENTS' HAVING TO SHARE BIRTHDAYS ? Who Invented the QWERTY Keyboard
AFTER Qwerty?CHRISTOPHER WHAT? LATHEM SHOLES ?? SPELL IT FOR US:
NOVEMBER
17TH IS NOW A HOLIDAY-DUH, IT'S MY SISTER'S BIRTHDAY. DO YOU GUYS
REMEMBER THE GUY WHO INVENTED THE ASDFJKLM TYPING FORM? HE WAS A
MILITARY MAN;; WE COULDN'T LIVE TODAY WITHOUT HIM ON THE INTERNET ? HOW
ABOUT A DAY TO CELEBRATE THEY GUY WHO GAVE US THE KEYBOARD ? (EVEN IF
THEY AREN'T LARGE ENOUGH FOR MEN'S FINGERS TO TYPE ON, RIGHT ?) LET'S
FIND HIM, HIS NAME AT LEAST, OK????? THANKS
(15) Who Invented the QWERTY Keyboard? -
UA-camTHEN ASAK DIVORAK ? WAS HE ALSO BY CHANCE REALTED TO THE GREAT
COMPOSER ?COMMON VOWELS(spell that so we'll know, too ? Thanks)
MARK TWAIN WAS THE FIRST PURCHASER OF THE KEYBOARD/TYPEWRITER,
THAT'S INTERESTING; THANK GOD HE GOT A HOLD OF ONE SOON!!WHAT ABOUT A
"SPECIFIC CELEBRATED DAY" FOR MARK TWAIN TOO ?ONLY THREE YOU TUBES
REGARDING THE INVENTION OF THE KEYBOARD, WHICH NONE OF US COULD EXIST ON
THE INTERNET, WITHOUT ?
Half the comments are people saying "this didnt tell me anything" and the rest are foreigners with different keyboard layouts
exactly
well fun fact even tho i have an azerty keyboard, i'm playing minecraft in wasd
What country are you from? (I'm pretty sure you too are a foreigner).
@@hoseigis6741 im from the USA
@@behavior2836 Yea I guessed so. My point was that lots of countries have querty keyboards. (All my keyboards here in Japan are QUERTY :-) (When I input Japanese 日本語等、there is a toggle switch so the keys produce different input, but the keyboard is still QUERTY... And I guess I'm a foreigner :-)
0:18 "we all have these qwerty keyboards"
Joke's on you, I'm French, we use azerty
Oh. So what do u use instead of wasd
@@MeedyMedia ZQSD
Same
My keyboard :
手田水口廿卜山戈人心
日尸木火土竹十大中
難金女月弓一
Same
only thing I got out of this video: there are other keyboard layouts...
about67turtles lol ikrrr
about67turtles yeah
He never said why it's overrated!
about67turtles I use the QWERT SO I MISS THE Y
Yeah wtf, the video made some dramatic pause in the middle, just to tell you some rich people created a monopoly on printers, than didn't go into detail
*So Basically at this point, People have gotten SO used to qwerty that no one wants to change it and come under fire, so it keeps going on . That's basically it.*
And that's all the reason we need. People have successfully typed billions of useless youtube comments with qwerty - it's working just fine.
A J French people got azerty keywords
summed it up in one. any improvement, marginal or otherwise, when using other layouts would take time and effort to relearn the keyboard along with the fact that if you got used to it and someone else needed to the use the computer, they would be really confused. This is assuming you're a touch typist which is something most of us need to do in today's society. I suspect any visual typist wouldn't have such a problem transitioning, but they wouldn't really see any improvement in speed or accuracy if that is the case.
Qwerty is a perfectly acceptable system. It's not like the 2nd amendment which is outdated and needs to be changed, qwerty is an appropriate format for typing and there's no real need to change it now.
Like with the Imperial Units vs the more efficient International System
Or like the decimal system vs the more efficient duodecimal system
To summarise this video:
There used to be other keyboards.
Until there weren't
"All keyboards lived in harmony until the QWERTY keyboard attacked."
There still are other keyboards. F QWERTY ... and staggered boards!
"The definition of overrated: Something everyone uses without knowing why."
I think someone needs to give the scriptwriter a dictionary.
No for real. That statement of his made me upset.
@@slavtrooper3851 Are you the scriptwriter? If not, I have no idea why you're telling me that.
Yeah I'm watching this half asleep and I heard that and thought "Yeah, but... what though?"
Can't deny his creativity or originality, the liberal use of "kew-er-tee" (not everyone pronounces it that way) and, what made me laugh, "machines for shooting" :)
Uffhjjjkllo
short answer is, QWERTY was chosen by the big typewriting companies which had a monopoly on typewriters so qwerty became the default keyboard. The thing is, even that was never mentioned in the video. This video pretty much only talked about other typewriter layouts.
I love you QWERTY
I thought they were going to actually educate the audience - perhaps talk about the reasons behind the design...the most frequently used English words? I only feel like my preconceived notions of capitalistic greed and market evolution have been reinforced, nothing more...nothing less.
Spaghetti qwerty
...Didn't they just talk about that? The "trust" companies were the monopoly companies
That's pretty much what the video talked about though...
this is the kind of video that doesnt show up in our recommendations until its 3am and your about to go to sleep
YO THAT LITERALLY JUST HAPPENED TO ME JUST NOW
Its 03:05 I was about to go to sleep..
Lol same here
Correction 4
2:49 rn
“99% chance you use qwerty”
Europeans: wut?? There’s more than 1% of us 😂😂😂
arabs too
We use qwerty tho
nøthin depends on the country you’re in
@@Pepa14pig yes
In Germany we have QWERTZ
In France there is AZERTY or Something
As a kid I never questioned QWERTY until I found out there were other keyboard types while playing in the settings. I was like: oh some people like it different.
After that I never questioned it again, because I had video games to play.
Normally I quite enjoy these videos but it really felt like you didn't actually say anything in this one... there was no point to it. "People debate if qwerty is the best but there were others that existed, they might not have been better though, but either way qwerty is what it is" -- "Okay..."
This video was a jumbled mess. The video premise was (How QWERTY conquered). Only one line backed up the premise. "If you took a class, you took it for the most common keyboard. ". It seems like they had nothing to say and just filled it with a bunch of nonsense.
I was hoping he would mention other types of key setting like AZERTY
This video is an explanation of why modern keyboard configuration is QWERTY, if you ever had a question before. At least, I have asked this question and I wonder the reason behind this configuration.
And there, it does explain it to me. One of the reasons I love Vox is because of this, they always catch those hard-to-detect questions and ask them, then explain them.
A huge THANK YOU. I just finished the video feeling kinda dumb and I thought it was me
Thomas Coull yeah it's super spread out and has a lot of information I didn't really need, like they could have gotten the same point across in half the time
At this point, after using the qwerty keyboard since I was a kid, I would never want to even try a different configuration of keys. I can type without looking at the keys now, but it would take me a lifetime to get that good with a new keyboard. Not to mention the fact that I've mastered the slide text on my phone, as well lol..
You can teach yourself after a while. It's just practice. It's no musical instrument which takes actual work to learn.
It's not that hard
yeah I was just about to say! I have ZERO desire to get comfortable with another arrangement of keys
From typing like my mother, to becoming a fast touch typist on QWERTY, it took just about a few months in my 6th grade keyboarding class. Although everyone in my class was just as annoyed at having to learn the new style as you are, we all eventually picked it up by the end of the semester. I have no doubt that you could do the same. I think being able to touch type now might actually help you a bit. And while I also don't intend to switch because of convenience, I wouldn't be opposed to it if I was forced to, since it would take maybe a few weeks at most.
It really doesn't take that long to adapt. I am bilingual and I regularly change keyboard layout on my computer when I switch languages. I can touch-type in both easily.
In 1982 when I was a student I took a typing class and learned to touch type. It still is a valuable skill
The one video on cnn explains it so much better.
TLDR: the arrangement was set to distance the letters that are usually paired up together
I like how he speaks random gibberish throughout the video.
Are you being sarcastic?
@@pauljordan4452 whoosh
When he said "KWBHGP", I feel that.
@@Dekeullan no you r/woooosh
meanwhile in a parallel universe "How XPMCHR conquered keyboards"
Jack Jazzdeathform In an Unknown Univers: How *bangs head on keyboard* conquered typewriters"
Jack Jazzdeathform, how ABCDEF Conquered keyboards
Jack Jazzdeathform how asdf conquered keyboards
Jack Jazzdeathform how did WASD conquered gaming
I like to think that when we mention specific things in a parallel universe, the other side mentions us too
been using Colemak for several years now, on a linear orthogonal keyboard. Keeps my hands healthier than typing on qwerty :) nice video!
"How you type is more important than what you type..."
My research paper: ._.
How you type is more important than what you type, well...
For the people typing it is more important. The job of the typist was to type correctly and quickly it was irrelevant if they were typing a personal letter or a $1,000,000 contract.
tbh, that's a really slow speed in 2017
Liya Lene Ha kid u have nothing on me i can type 10 words every hour
Yo Diana i was talking to liya lene, she said she types 40 words per minute. I said that was slow. Sorry for being so unclear.
philosophy sobs
"There's 99% chance that you're using QWERTY keyboard"
Me, using a AZERTY keyboard ; so am I part of the 1% ?!
everyone i know uses QWERTZ
no way... 1% man
QWERTY,QÜERTY,QWERTY,QWERTY,ЈҮУКНГ.
I use QWERTY but i can change it lol
@@SpaceCat01 is it heil or seige?
Me:*searchs "AZERTY"*
UA-cam : uno reverse card
IIRC I read in some article
QWERTY was used because it is based on how the words are arranged. They tried it alphabetically but they find it difficult to type so the arrangement are well-distributed to make it easy to type
"Qwerty" one of the most common passwords.
not me! mine is *************
and mine is ***************************
TMR Teckk mine is analmidgetbdsm69
Mine is password
I use the same password for everything, its "12345". I post this with all usernames and websites on my facebook wall regularily in order to not forget it.
In Korean we have all the consonants on the left side and all the vowels on the right. Personally, I think that layout is perfect, But English doesn’t have enough vowels for that layout.
JHerrera2004 and sometimes w
Maybe in words like "pawn", "awe", "law" etc. But I would say it's never used as a single vowel, that os, surrounded by cosumns and producing one syllable by itself. So that's still a consumn.
Maybe in words like "pawn", "awe", "law" etc. But I would say it's never used as a single vowel, that os, surrounded by cosumns and producing one syllable by itself. So that's still a consumn.
@@jERA2k lol yeah
ㅎ
I pressed g
Imagine some guy putting his own name in it and just jumble everything
qwerty is the best thing that happened to computers in an entire century. imagine not just 2-3 ways of doing something but 22 equally popular among the people, it's just madness. The standard is valuable not because it's most convenient or most optimized, but because it standardizes our cooperation, communication and interchangeability of things, people and tools.
French people use azerty keyboards and germans use qwertzu keyboards. And is almost the same thing.
Yeah, I'm from Switzerland and grew up using a qwertzu keyboard. When I went to America it took me a while to actually be able to type on a qwerty keyboard without having to actually look down at my keyboard.
Score Master / #ConTV qwertz not qwertzu
Dire Wolf I live in luxembourg (a small country between france and germany) and when i bought my laptop they had a choice between azerty, qwerty and qwertzU
In Hungary we use QWERTZU too.
Azertyuiop
I'm french
How WASD conquered keyboard.
There is an actual video about it
Its gaming time
ESDF gang
ZQSD team
Gaming time baby
Colemak here. It fixed my hand pain.
QWERTY is like amazing ngl I’ve memorised it completely..
*ABCD* has left the chat
RSTUDIOS
ABCD
Авсd наs d|еd
_qwertz is crying_
@@Ayaan13550 yes
99% definitely isn’t true. Germany has QWERTZ for example
AZERTY in France basically because we use A much more than Q
@@WuizGaming *Belgium too
@@contributiontosociety1802 yes finally
@@existingdude4949 bruh
@@WuizGaming That's the reason why we have the A below the Q. There it's easier accessable. The Q is almost useless in German and therefore it's in the last corner, where it's hard to reach
How interesting that the history of a keyboard layout involves a good amount of principles from product design and economics!
Everybody: Qwerty
Belgium: Azerty
ᏣᏔᎧᎿᏀᏍ
Авсенјкморѕтх
France too
I know
“It’s not what you type, it’s how you type”
**SMACK SMACK SMACK SMACK**
"We all use it but don't know why, that's the definition of overrated"? Wtf, no? I think that would be even closer to underrated than overrated, because nobody appreciates it as much as they should for how important it is in everyday life.
Or, you know, "underrated" and "overrated" are both terms relating popularity to quality rather than how much people know about what they're using
I think the work "overrated" is overrated. People use it all the time to describe things that don't line up perfectly with their understanding.
I was looking for this comment.
Kevin Wade, True.
That is so true, Kevin! :O
I have no idea how that sentence got approved. Did no one proofread? It makes as much sense as "shooting people is the definition of conservation of energy"
Hello from DVORAK! Switched a year ago and life is greener on the other side.
Fascinating about qwerty keyboard is that we arranged it using the name typewriter in one single line. Fun facts about qwerrty is that we can type even were not looking
*laughing in french*
saekki haha xD
"hon hon hon hon"
hheyitzmason c b1 frr
Shut up, croissant
Azerty
I love how people get offended because it's directed to the US audience. You know, where the company is from, where their employees are from, and where they operate?
Their audience is worldwide and it's just a typical American thing to pretend they're unique
Emile D'Haene their audience is worldwide, sure. Their target audience probably American.
Emile D'Haene What makes you say that we want to feel special? Literally everyone does.
I agree that more global topics on Vox would be interesting, but this complaint is like going to the BBC and complaining that they focus too much on news in the UK.
1UpsForLife completely agree
Great video
I remember reading somewhere that a guy called Qwert Yuiop invented the modern typewriter and left his name on it. And I actually believed it lol
They:
_"Pen is mightier than the sword"_
Me:
*Whips out a goddamn Remington typewriter*
That is straight up bringing a gun.
i got QWERTZ
einHolzkopf aren’t the y and z swapped around on some?
QWERTZ is basically QWERTY but with y and z swapped and with ä, ö and ü.
einHolzkopf ah okay. I’m learning german at the moment:)
einHolzkopf QWERTY
moin du holzkopf auch hier xd
I'm here coz my friend.... Bought me, a DE version of an item I wanted. Well. I'm learning new stuff tonight. Lordy...~
Even now, there's quirky QWERTYs. AZERTY, QWERTZ, etc.
in southern cali we use qerty because i swear to christ every single keyboard i have ever seen has lost the w key.
HELP ME ESTABLISH A HOLIDAY FOR THIS GUY, AND GET THE NARRATOR TO MORE ELOQUENTLY EXPLAIN THE WHO'S AND WHAT'S OF THIS ? YOU TUBE "CARE?" , GOOGLE "CARES?" TRIED BOTH OF THEM , THEY DON'T WANT TO BE CONTACTED APPARENTLY. GUESS THEY STOPPED USING EITHER INVENTIONS AT THEIR WORK, UTHINK? BOTHESR ME THAT THEY CRAM ALL FOUR PRESIDENT'S "COMMERATIONS" I.E. BIRTHDAYS INTO ONE, NOW WHY DOESN'T THIS GUY (OR THE ONE THEY NARRATOR ISN'T PRONOUNCING CORRECTLY, OR PRONOUNCES DVORACK TWO DIFFERENT WAYS) DO SOMETHING "ABOUT" A "RECOGNITION OR DAY OF RESPECT" FOR WHOMEVER /WHICHEVER HE'S TRYING TO "ENUNCIATATE " PROPERLY (WE HOPE?).SHULLS? CHRISTOPHER LATHEM SHULLS? WHAT ? THIS GUY ISN'T PRONOUNCING THE CORRECT NAME OF THE INVENTOR OF THE "KEYBOARD'???
GIVE US HIS FULL EXACT PRECISELY= SPELLED NAME, AND WHY ONLY TWO
VIDEOS? THIS GUY DESERVES A HOLIDAY TOO, DON' YOU THINK? SOME GUY OUGHT
TO INVENT LARGER KEYS FOR MEN TO BE ABLE TO USE THEM MORE EASILY, TOO,
DON' TYOU THINK? Lynda Faye1 second agoWAIT
A MINUTE ?!! ONLY TWO VIDEOS ABOUT THE GUY WHO INVENTED "OUR'
KEYBOARDS? WHAT'S GOING ON? COULDN'T WE AT LEAST CRAM ALL OF THEM INTO
AT LEAST "ONE CELEBRATED" HOLIDAY--SUCH AS OUR GOVERNMENT HAS DONE WITH
OUR PRESIDENTS' HAVING TO SHARE BIRTHDAYS ? Who Invented the QWERTY
Keyboard AFTER Qwerty?CHRISTOPHER WHAT? LATHEM SHOLES ?? SPELL IT FOR
US:
NOVEMBER
17TH IS NOW A HOLIDAY-DUH, IT'S MY SISTER'S BIRTHDAY. DO YOU GUYS
REMEMBER THE GUY WHO INVENTED THE ASDFJKLM TYPING FORM? HE WAS A
MILITARY MAN;; WE COULDN'T LIVE TODAY WITHOUT HIM ON THE INTERNET ? HOW
ABOUT A DAY TO CELEBRATE THEY GUY WHO GAVE US THE KEYBOARD ? (EVEN IF
THEY AREN'T LARGE ENOUGH FOR MEN'S FINGERS TO TYPE ON, RIGHT ?) LET'S
FIND HIM, HIS NAME AT LEAST, OK????? THANKS
(15) Who Invented the QWERTY Keyboard? -
UA-camTHEN ASAK DIVORAK ? THE NARRATOR PRONOUNCES HIS NAME, TWO
DIFFERENT WAYS, SO WE WON'T BE ABLE TO KNOW,...DUH, WAS HE ALSO BY
CHANCE RELATED TO THE GREAT COMPOSER ?COMMON VOWELS(spell that so we'll
know, too ? Thanks)
MARK TWAIN WAS THE FIRST PURCHASER OF THE KEYBOARD/TYPEWRITER,
THAT'S INTERESTING; THANK GOD HE GOT A HOLD OF ONE SOON!!WHAT ABOUT A
"SPECIFIC CELEBRATED DAY" FOR MARK TWAIN TOO ?ONLY THREE YOU TUBES
REGARDING THE INVENTION OF THE KEYBOARD, WHICH NONE OF US COULD EXIST ON
THE INTERNET, WITHOUT ??!! ….WAIT, ? THERE ARE
ONLY TWO VIDEOS ABOUT THE GUY WHO INVENTED "OUR' KEYBOARDS? WHAT'S
GOING ON? COULDN'T WE AT LEAST CRAM ALL OF THEM INTO AT LEAST "ONE
CELEBRATED" HOLIDAY--SUCH AS OUR GOVERNMENT HAS DONE WITH OUR
PRESIDENTS' HAVING TO SHARE BIRTHDAYS ? Who Invented the QWERTY Keyboard
AFTER Qwerty?CHRISTOPHER WHAT? LATHEM SHOLES ?? SPELL IT FOR US:
NOVEMBER
17TH IS NOW A HOLIDAY-DUH, IT'S MY SISTER'S BIRTHDAY. DO YOU GUYS
REMEMBER THE GUY WHO INVENTED THE ASDFJKLM TYPING FORM? HE WAS A
MILITARY MAN;; WE COULDN'T LIVE TODAY WITHOUT HIM ON THE INTERNET ? HOW
ABOUT A DAY TO CELEBRATE THEY GUY WHO GAVE US THE KEYBOARD ? (EVEN IF
THEY AREN'T LARGE ENOUGH FOR MEN'S FINGERS TO TYPE ON, RIGHT ?) LET'S
FIND HIM, HIS NAME AT LEAST, OK????? THANKS
(15) Who Invented the QWERTY Keyboard? -
UA-camTHEN ASAK DIVORAK ? WAS HE ALSO BY CHANCE REALTED TO THE GREAT
COMPOSER ?COMMON VOWELS(spell that so we'll know, too ? Thanks)
MARK TWAIN WAS THE FIRST PURCHASER OF THE KEYBOARD/TYPEWRITER,
THAT'S INTERESTING; THANK GOD HE GOT A HOLD OF ONE SOON!!WHAT ABOUT A
"SPECIFIC CELEBRATED DAY" FOR MARK TWAIN TOO ?ONLY THREE YOU TUBES
REGARDING THE INVENTION OF THE KEYBOARD, WHICH NONE OF US COULD EXIST ON
THE INTERNET, WITHOUT ?Read more Show less
but hy tho?
Now I feel like I need to type a comment to use my keyboard.
The Vegan Wallflower qwerty
Qwerty
The Vegan Wallflower same
Qwertz
Same
I learnt more reading the comments than watching this video.
The reason the cartel chose QWERTY is that most of the companies producing typewriters had already adopted at least some version of it and most typists were already trained on it a result it was the industry standard, The industry needed a standard and since QWERTY was the most common layout choosing it made sense. For one thing, at least initially typing teachers and typists would have had to learn how to use multiple layouts. Also businesses that purchased multiple typewriters and whose employees were already trained on QWERTY were not going to switch to another layout because it would take time and money to retrain their employees. While it's true that DVORAK and some of the other layouts did increase speed an accuracy slightly but not enough to make it worthwhile for companies to purchase new equipment and retrain employees.
German layout is qwertz for some reason...
Because y is very rare in German.
i´m from germany and we use the z more often than the y
Same in Switzerland. Still waaaaay better than french AZERTY. Never could use that thing.
Thierry Schork excuse me im from Flanders Belgium and we all use azerty to
Ps i've always used azerty and wethever you've used througout your life is what your best with
it is funny, im dutch(qwerty) and my gf comes from flanders(azerty), and i find it interesting how they play minecraft or other games with that keyboard. they use strange enough wasd instead of zqsd. and if i tell them that it is better too use that on a azerty keyboard they say that it isn't right to do that???
for dutch i prefer qwerty..
haHA i have QWERTZ
Same
It's just the german version
Qeert
+Carl I'm American, but when I was staying in Germany about ten years ago, I used the computer of my German friend that I was staying with to surf the internet and send e-mails to my mom. I never did get used to the the z and the y arrangement on the keyboard. I would have to constantly go back and edit my writing to turn my z's back into y's. Like I would write "yellow" as "zellow," or "type" as "tzpe." That's why QWERTY, or QWERTZ, will never go away. When you've been typing nearly your whole life, the muscle memory is there.
Same QWERTZ is also used in the balkans
Him: "We all use the QWERTY."
Me, a french guy: *laughs in AZERTY*
I shall laugh with you
The keyboard used to be TYPEWRI, but someone said you can't have your company name Typewriter along the top row thus they rearranged those letters
It is pretty easy to understand why everyone still uses qwerty. Mankind got used to it , everyone expects it , and humans tend to resist change anytime it is possible. Just look at America and the change to metric system.
Thats it.
Eduardo Borges Yes! that's why the german keyboard still is QWERTZ Today. Because People are used to it . Y is rarely used so that's why they changed the position with the Z. (At least that's the reason I know?) oh and yeah on the right side we have additional Ü Ö Ä .
America should change to metric system because it's much better, has better conversions and stops mishaps like the mars one from happening again. There is no reason to switch from qwerty right now
The reason I know is that the "tz" combination is very common in German, so you can type it in a comfortable motion.
Andrei Felix ok that actually makes a lot of sense
Eduardo Borges i Use azerty mwhahahaha*sneaks away*
*I'm now going to name my child Qwerty*
Water scape
*_Qwerty, You were named after a keyboard pattern._*
Goddammit Laurens LOL
Water scape o-o
"LOOK DAD, MY NAME'S WRITTEN IN THE KEYBOARD
Oh yeah about that son...
I installed another keyboard on my phone when I started learning French and German... but I become more comfortable with QWERTY as I already mastered it--I no longer need to find each letters one by one as my muscles are already used to the position of the letters.
Back in the early 90s, as a teenager, so i took typewriting classes, to type my school work using my family’s IBM electrical machine. That was in the last century sheesh..
no, that's not the definition of overrated.
o·ver·rate
ˌōvərˈrāt/Submit
verb
past tense: overrated; past participle: overrated
have a higher opinion of (someone or something) than is deserved.
"dismissing the work as pompous and overrated"
synonyms: overestimate, overvalue, think too much of, attach too much importance to, praise too highly
"I think his music is overrated"
“We all use it, but don’t know why. That’s the definition of overrated”
No........
Yeah, I was thinking about that.
Well, the topic is certainly interesting, really fascinating to know where this order of letters came from. Probably 99 % chance of having this kind of keyboard is a bit too much, I personally have QWERTZ and many countries have their own kind typography.
That being said, it is super interesting the way you present this topic and make us question things we always took for granted and didn't even wonder why it is the way it is. Thank you!
He presumably meant QWERTY or one of its derivatives like AZERTY and QWERTZ.
It was only meant to differentiate the QWERTY family of keyboards from Dvorak, Colemak, etc.
I myself have QWERTZ as well, as I live in Europe (Germany).
The letters are in the other they are because it's pretty easy to find out what letters are most common in a certain language. Once you have a basic layout and an idea of how people effectively type it's actually quite easy to find the optimal place to put letters within that system. It's however far harder to predict the general keyboard design that optimists typing. On one side you want to optimize for speed but on the other you end up with more errors that way which on type writers without a back key was a massive issue.
Who taught you the meaning of the words ‘interesting’ and ‘fascinating’?!
Quick Fix Yayyy i also have qwertz
My favorite thing about this is Phil pronouncing KWBHGP and XPMCHR.
Hey!
To be honest: I go around UA-cam, and sometimes post a reaction about something American and how it is for a Dutch person:
So…..
There is a Dutch version of QWERTY. It's the same, but some little things are diffrent like the / and the " are swapped and stuff like that. But nobody uses the Dutch version of QWERTY, because the hardware keybaords in the Netherlands are printed the same way as the ones sold in America.
In France and Germany they have a diffrent version, even on your phone. French has AZERTY (Don't know for sure) and the Germans have diffrent keys for their umlauts (ä, ö and ü). But I don't know if these 2 versions are actually used.
Another fun fact, the Greek keybaord is based on QWERTY, so are the Japanese and Chinese keyboard.
I love languages, so it's not that strange for me to know how to type in diffrent languages.
People always told me that QWERTY was the easiest/fastest way to type. That's why it changes for diffrent languages. I don't know for sure, but it seems logic to me.
Oh wait you use QWERTY? I use WASD
Wasd stands for Why Ass suckers die
Your god damn right good sir!
_Mashup Gamer_ WASD = U ASSD
Aww its a console player who is whining
UUHHH OOOOHHHHHHHHH FOUND THE GAMMMMEEEERRRRRRR
Not sure I got anything out of the video. Was expecting to learn the reason why qwerty is overrated...
They did. The only reason it's almost universal in America is because the biggest manufacturer(s) made them in that format, and typist classes trained for it. Therefore, it's overrated.
But why does it not deserve the high opinion? If there is something more efficient, then qwerty would be overrated, but there are flaws in them all
Until something better comes along qwerty isn't overrated. The video really didn't say much at all except who invented qwerty.
It's all about efficiency - Germans for example use QWERTZ.
And how many computers have chorded steno keyboard? Like learning some exotic language just to learn instead the most usefull one.
3:13 - The 'FLAEIO' keyboard? The 'YUOIE' keyboard? Best I can come up with (sadly).
Questions:
1) Does the I and O, double as 1 and 0?
2) Bottom row: What does the secondary symbols on the fifth & ninth keys symbolise (left to right counting)? What's the 10th key? The tripple horizontal dots?
I typed this comment without looking at the keyboard. Amazing how we don't have the sequence of the letters memorized but our fingers do.
If, like me, you heard QWERTY was about slowing down typists, there's a surprising amount of literature debunking it. This paper, from 1985, appears to be one of the more influential ones in the surprisingly large field of QWERTY scholarship (and it helped this video a lot).
campus.fsu.edu/bbcswebdav/users/jcalhoun/Courses/Growth_of_American_Economy/Chapter_Supplemental_Readings/Chapter_28/David-Clio_and_the_Economics_of_Qwerty.pdf
-Phil
Vox hi
It's not per se that it's about _slowing typists down_, though that's a fairly reasonable simplification of the truth. The arrangement was to prevent keys from jamming, as the article you link states. (Also, I found the archaic use of the term "bully", "bullying optimism" really amusing.) This, in part, means placing common key combinations far apart from each other, which can in some cases cause slow down. A slower typist is also, obviously, less likely to jam. So while it's not per se correct to claim QWERTY is "about slowing down typists", it quite clearly is designed in a way that indirectly encourages less than optimal typing speeds.
Regarding Dvorak, it's also very important to note that its advantages are not limited to speed. Yes, it certainly is significantly faster (as the many converts such as myself can attest) than QWERTY, but far more importantly the fact that it reduces hand travel and balances out hand use means that it is also an inherently more ergonomic keyboard. You're less likely to develop RSIs regularly using Dvorak than you are with QWERTY. In today's workplace, that is *super* important.
Jim Cullen I switched to the Dvorak layout for a few months, and I did find it easier on my hands because there is less travel as the most commonly used letters are on the home row. However I wasn’t able to reached the sustained typing speeds I can maintain using the QWERTY layout.
You couldn't catch up in a few months? Were you going cold turkey and regularly making sure to practise? Perhaps most importantly, did you switch you keycaps around and/or put stickers on the keys or not? Because it's actually widely regarded as a very *bad* idea to have stickers/switched keys. That encourages laziness and makes it easy to learn hunt-and-peck typing or quasi-touch-typing, but delays your ability to truly touch type.
It took me about a month and a half before I was as fast on Dvorak as I was on QWERTY before the switch. After two-to-three months I had improved by about 20% over my initial QWERTY speed, where I plateaued.
I Only Need WASD On My Keyboard
Tokeny same
Same, or the arrow keys and the mouse and number keys😂😂
You did see the issue with you comment, don't you?
Tokeny I just need ctrl
If you play Minectaft you need only that XD
I'm an air traffic controller at one of the busier terminal radar approach control facilities in the country. We sit in front of digital radar displays to talk on radio frequencies and control aircraft movement, and one of the tools we use is a keyboard that lets us edit digital tags on the screen to keep track of aircraft.
The keyboard I use every day at work ISN'T QWERTY, but is instead a ABCDEF keyboard. and I. HATE. IT.
I'm a pretty "online" person, and when i first got hired there it took a LONG time for me to get used to it, and even today i find myself looking at the keyboard to figure out where letters are.
I was told that YEARS ago, (probably the early to mid 2000's), when the facility was undergoing some technology upgrades,
the controllers there were offered their choice of keyboards:
QWERTY or ABCDEF.
Given that a lot of these controllers at the time 70's and 60's babies, and I'm assuming not as technologically literate as younger generations today,
they chose something that made sense to them,
giving us the alphabetized keyboards we used today.
I hope someday we can get this changed. For people who actually type on a regular basis, having to switch formats is a bit of a pain.
and for the people who DON'T type every day, it shouldn't matter one way or the other lol...
Maybe there are better letter configuration but at some point you just have to pick a standard and go with it. We should be happy one layout took over. Imagine if keyboards had to come in dozens of configurations depending on which you are used to? Or you start at a new job and they use a letter configuration you aren’t familiar with. Would be a nightmare.
Hmm, this is some majestic 12 Illuminati stuff right here!
Didn't I see you in the Rohingya video?
Hilarious
Lets see qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm yep
Salokin ,
Salokin QWERTY I have it
Sometimes I do something out of habit, like tapping my desk.
0:44
*_ThAT'S ThE DeFinITioN oF oVerrATeD_*
XD
Lol
Now i cant unsee the qwerty on my keyboard
I feel like it can't be overrated if there's nothing wrong with it
Azerty
(Im from belgium)
Zwari Hari ayy me too
Zwari Hari i have qwertz
ThatSlave Gt I have QWERTZ too.
How do u play fps? 0_0
SaltyPotato I have abcdef
qWERTYuIoP you can spell TYPEWRITER on just the top row. Salesmen only had to learn that as a sample and they could make typing look effortless.
Tzpewriter xdd
Typewriter
That's exactly what I was told! Very surprised they didn't spoke about it in the vid...
I read (somewhere) when doing research on using the Dvorak keyboard layout, another big reason QWERTY dominates is the U.S. government's acquisition of teletype machines in World War II. The Dvorak layout was actually gaining some traction in the typing world leading up to WWII, but Uncle Sam settled on the QWERTY layout after the U.S. Navy performed some studies on typist speeds. Either that, or "Big QWERTY" performed some lobbying efforts to cement this standard. My efforts at learning the Dvorak keyboard never came to fruition :-(
I'd learn Colemak or Colemak DH (a slightly more comfortable iteration). Dvorak may be hard to learn, but from my experiences, it IS quite strangely designed and.... uncomfortable sometimes because some keys are placed in obtuse spots.... like the I not being placed on any of the 8 home keys, or F and L being in straining locations... as far as I know, Colemak doesn't have any of these issues, Colemak DH, even less so, and its based off of QWERTY so its not a huge transitionary step. You'll learn this not because you want to cut QWERTY out of your life, but simply because its way more comfortable, and that should mean the world to you if you type even 4 days a week... just stick with it for a month and see what you think of it!
Actually you forgot the more important answer to the question raised in the title. Because QWERTY is universal and people are also already used to it. Using another one is deemed difficult
qwertz from Slovakia
same qwertz
Qwerty
qwertz
qwertz for me too (:
qwertz
Watching this with a QWERTZ keyboard
which country
@@VS-mt3hr Deutschland
@@frukuri3424 weißt du ob andere Länder auch noch QWERTZ benutzen?
@@VS-mt3hr ja ungarrn und noch ein anderes
Every Vox video it's me going "I don't care about this!.... but let me be sure about it..." and i see the video..
Gave Vox the benefit of the doubt, this video being 3 years old now...
I want my 5 minutes, 47 seconds back.
Vox on the metric system: We should switch to metric because everyone is using it.
Vox on QWERTY: We should have different keyboards because everyone is using QWERTY.
SlicksGaming logic!
SlicksGaming lol
This video doesn't have any conclusion, though. It just explains the history of QWERTY.
He calls it overrated at least 5 times
To be fair, (even though I don't really like Vox that much), there is a difference between the two, since a keyboard layout only affects the person using it.
this video does say anything valid. keyboards are designed this way so that when typing a word, keys are seperated from each other as much as possible
Putt T. He mentions that theory at 2:37. According to that theory, the reasoning for making consecutively typed keys separated far apart is to keep them from jamming. Keys jammed when two hammers swung too close together in opposite directions, causing their hammers to hook together, and you'd have to reach in and pry them apart.
A bit like the biggest software companies ensuring that their programmes and operating systems are used ubiquitously, by putting them into schools and classrooms (or by cornering the market on remote education...)
Qwerty like a melody my hea- wait WHAT
I learned typing in elementary school with Qwerty, but when I began to study French and German I found it far easier to go ahead and learn their standard keyboards as well, AZERTY and QWERTZ respectively. Qwerty is by no means the sole standard but it certainly seems to have gained a place akin to that in English.
I think it's Qwerty because it makes typing easier. The vowels mostly lie were you fingers stay.m and the letters for 'the' are very close. 'Er' is literally already in order, just like 'as'. That makes sense, right?
bigbigcheese2 the Dvorak keyboard is better though because the letters you use most are all on the home row so you don’t have to move your fingers (aoeuidhtns instead of asdfghjkl;)
SHULLS? CHRISTOPHER LATHEM SHULLS? WHAT ? THIS GUY ISN'T PRONOUNCING THE CORRECT NAME OF THE INVENTOR OF THE "KEYBOARD'???
GIVE US HIS FULL EXACT PRECISELY= SPELLED NAME, AND WHY ONLY TWO
VIDEOS? THIS GUY DESERVES A HOLIDAY TOO, DON' YOU THINK? SOME GUY OUGHT
TO INVENT LARGER KEYS FOR MEN TO BE ABLE TO USE THEM MORE EASILY, TOO,
DON' TYOU THINK? AND I'M STILL UPSET THAT OUR GOVERNMENTAL REPS CRAMMED FOUR PRESIDENT BIRTHDAYS INTO ONE; THIS GUY DOESN'T HAVE EVEN ONE "DESIGNATED COMMERATIVE DAY" WITH WHICH WE COULD SHOW OUR RESPECT FOR HIS INVENTION " . HOW DOES ONE WRITE TO GOOGLE? TO YOU TUBE? SUPPORT DOESN'T SEEM TO "CARE" . I HAPPEN TO CARE, THAT'S ALL! ANYONE KNOW WHO GIVES A DARN? WAIT!! ONLY TWO VIDEOS ABOUT THE GUY WHO INVENTED "OUR'
KEYBOARDS? WHAT'S GOING ON? COULDN'T WE AT LEAST CRAM ALL OF THEM INTO
AT LEAST "ONE CELEBRATED" HOLIDAY--SUCH AS OUR GOVERNMENT HAS DONE WITH
OUR PRESIDENTS' HAVING TO SHARE BIRTHDAYS ? Who Invented the QWERTY
Keyboard AFTER Qwerty?CHRISTOPHER WHAT? LATHEM SHOLES ?? SPELL IT FOR
US: NOVEMBER 17TH IS APPARENTLY A NEWLY APPOIINTED /ELECTED HOLIDAY FOR SOME ODD REASON BY SOME PERSON; NOW A HOLIDAY-DUH, IT'S MY SISTER'S BIRTHDAY. DO YOU GUYS
REMEMBER THE GUY WHO INVENTED THE ASDFJKLM TYPING FORM? HE WAS A
MILITARY MAN;; WE COULDN'T LIVE TODAY WITHOUT HIM ON THE INTERNET ? HOW
ABOUT A DAY TO CELEBRATE THEY GUY WHO GAVE US THE KEYBOARD ? (EVEN IF
THEY AREN'T LARGE ENOUGH FOR MEN'S FINGERS TO TYPE ON, RIGHT ?) LET'S
FIND HIM, HIS NAME AT LEAST, OK????? THANKS
(15) Who Invented the QWERTY Keyboard? -
UA-camTHEN ASAK DIVORAK ? THE NARRATOR PRONOUNCES HIS NAME, TWO
DIFFERENT WAYS, SO WE WON'T BE ABLE TO KNOW,...DUH, WAS HE ALSO BY
CHANCE RELATED TO THE GREAT COMPOSER ?COMMON VOWELS(spell that so we'll
know, too ? Thanks)
MARK TWAIN WAS THE FIRST PURCHASER OF THE KEYBOARD/TYPEWRITER,
THAT'S INTERESTING; THANK GOD HE GOT A HOLD OF ONE SOON!!WHAT ABOUT A
"SPECIFIC CELEBRATED DAY" FOR MARK TWAIN TOO ?ONLY THREE YOU TUBES
REGARDING THE INVENTION OF THE KEYBOARD, WHICH NONE OF US COULD EXIST ON
THE INTERNET, WITHOUT ??!! ….WAIT, ? THERE ARE
ONLY TWO VIDEOS ABOUT THE GUY WHO INVENTED "OUR' KEYBOARDS? WHAT'S
GOING ON? COULDN'T WE AT LEAST CRAM ALL OF THEM INTO AT LEAST "ONE
CELEBRATED" HOLIDAY--SUCH AS OUR GOVERNMENT HAS DONE WITH OUR
PRESIDENTS' HAVING TO SHARE BIRTHDAYS ? Who Invented the QWERTY Keyboard
AFTER Qwerty?CHRISTOPHER WHAT? LATHEM SHOLES ?? SPELL IT FOR US:
NOVEMBER
17TH IS NOW A HOLIDAY-DUH, IT'S MY SISTER'S BIRTHDAY. DO YOU GUYS
REMEMBER THE GUY WHO INVENTED THE ASDFJKLM TYPING FORM? HE WAS A
MILITARY MAN;; WE COULDN'T LIVE TODAY WITHOUT HIM ON THE INTERNET ? HOW
ABOUT A DAY TO CELEBRATE THEY GUY WHO GAVE US THE KEYBOARD ? (EVEN IF
THEY AREN'T LARGE ENOUGH FOR MEN'S FINGERS TO TYPE ON, RIGHT ?) LET'S
FIND HIM, HIS NAME AT LEAST, OK????? THANKS
(15) Who Invented the QWERTY Keyboard? -
UA-camTHEN ASAK DIVORAK ? WAS HE ALSO BY CHANCE REALTED TO THE GREAT
COMPOSER ?COMMON VOWELS(spell that so we'll know, too ? Thanks)
MARK TWAIN WAS THE FIRST PURCHASER OF THE KEYBOARD/TYPEWRITER,
THAT'S INTERESTING; THANK GOD HE GOT A HOLD OF ONE SOON!!WHAT ABOUT A
"SPECIFIC CELEBRATED DAY" FOR MARK TWAIN TOO ?ONLY THREE YOU TUBES
REGARDING THE INVENTION OF THE KEYBOARD, WHICH NONE OF US COULD EXIST ON
THE INTERNET, WITHOUT ?
Christ in caps lock...
QWERTY only has one vowel in home row, though.
Hungarian , German , Swiss & Czech :
QWERTZ keyboard
Qwerty is carved into my mind I can't even use Dvorak for a minute
I am from germany and we use qwertz. It's like qwerty but the z and y are swapped
Same in Hungary, plus we have ö,ü,ó,ő,ú,é,á,ű,í
In Serbia we too use QWERTZ with letters č,ć,đ,ž,š
Some random Guy I’m live inSerbia too
Lord Sefe the word is “swapped”
same with us in Austria.
Well in my country we have QWERTZ
Same
I use qwerty, however, for my phone's German keyboard I have chosen to use qwertz for authenticity
Y an Z just changed places
huehuehue
Roko Loncar No, there's also "ä" , "ö", "ü" and "ß".
The part of "students in classes" was the real reason, though it wasn't elaborated upon...
Question please: while typing my keyboard changes suddenly from qwerty to azerty. I like to keep qwerty only although I am able to write french (for accents like à é ç etc..) using ALT+SHIFT. So how can I keep qwerty alone.
AZERTY any one? ... No one? okay ...
Mine is AZERTY. Are you French?
Belgian :)
QWERTZ somebody?
I got one by accident.. Now I use qwerty on a azerty
ⵣas26 02 mam ana dzairi! Balak ki nahadrou lfrancais bzaf li 3andna haka
Never heard of azerty?
No? Only Belgium is so lame
Roberto Zunica they also use azerty in France
my old laptop had qwertx
I’m from Belgium
I bought a Laptop in belgium online that had a qwerty, cuz I hate Azerty. It. Just. Sucks.
I'm so used to azerty lol
It's just about the way the human brain works, commonly used letters, and which fingers have the easiest access to muscle memory. The shape of the human hand literally explains why. Could you imagine having to hit the spacebar where caps lock is as opposed to just dropping your thumb? Easy access is the answer.
I was taught that it was qwerty/qwertz/azerty because it was used more often.
Atleast that's what I remembered.