Why are keyboards in QWERTY order?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever looked at the keyboard on a phone or computer and wondered why the letters are arranged the way they are? The English alphabet starts with A-B-C-D-E, so why do keyboards start with Q-W-E-R-T-Y? We asked historian and museum curator Kristen Gallerneaux to help us find the answer.

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0:35.0	From the Brains Behind Brains On, this is the moment of um. Moment ofum comes to you from 8. Studios. I'm Shayla Farzan. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
1:04.0	And time!
1:06.0	Woo!
1:07.0	58 words per minute, my new personal best.
1:11.0	I've been practicing my typing lately so I can be super duper
1:15.1	efficient when I write the latest chapters of my new adventure novel. One, two
1:20.3	swashbuckle my shoe. It's about a swashbuckling pirate slug who takes to the high seas to find
1:26.5	treasure and glory. It's got secret codes, hidden maps, pits full of crocodiles, you know, just typical adventure stuff, but with pirate slugs.
1:37.6	I'm writing it out on this old typewriter I found at a thrift store.
1:41.2	I just love the click-a- clack of the keys and that little
1:44.9	ding when I get to a new line. Ah so satisfying but you know what's kind of
1:52.1	strange my typewriter keyboard isn't in
1:55.8	alphabetical order. And it's the same thing on my phone and my computer. So
2:01.3	instead of going ABC, B, C, D, it starts with Q, W, E, R, T, Y. Quirti?
2:10.0	Is that some sort of secret code or something?
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