# The real reasons for the qwerty keyboard

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-reasons-for-the-qwerty-keyboard/183440>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 21, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-reasons-for-the-qwerty-keyboard/183440 "2003-06-21T17:56:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Schnitte](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/schnitte/32/9033_2.png) [@Schnitte](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Schnitte)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-reasons-for-the-qwerty-keyboard/183440/21 "2003-06-24T16:53:16Z")

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Aldebaran:  
I don’t use qwerty either. I have a standard German keyboard, but that’s very similar to qwerty: the top row is qwertz (the y is in the bottom row, on the left of the x), and the umlauts ä, ö, ü have keys on their own. AFAIK those are the only differences to qwerty. I guess the letter frequency distributions of German and English are pretty much the same too.

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**Author:** ![j.c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/73ab20/32.png) [@j.c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/j.c)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2003, 8:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-real-reasons-for-the-qwerty-keyboard/183440/22 "2003-06-26T08:19:37Z")

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Can anyone find a study where people WHO HAD NEVER TYPED were compared?

Just wondering, been looking for quite a while.

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