Why aren't the keys on a keyboard in alphabetical order?
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the system is called "qwerty" (look at the top row of your keyboard and you'll know why.)  It's done the way it is so as to be arranged by frequency of use, and to put the most often used keys in easily accesible order.
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At first, tt was chosen over the obvious alphabetical order because the old mechanical typewriters used long bars to print the letter on paper, and these bars would get stuck if the typewriter was typing English words very quickly. To reduce the bar clogging, the inventor Sholes placed letters that would be used together often as far apart as possible, like the letters "T" and "H".\n\nAnd since that day we have been stuck with this layout, phasing it out would be too difficult since we've been used to it for generations.
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Three things come to mind,\nOne - That was a special keyboard.\nTwo - Your current keyboard is malfunctioning\nThree - Were both keyboards plugged in the same way? IE, were both usb/ps2?
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PRESS ALT+ SHIFE AT THE SAME TIME(FOR ALT,SHIFT IN THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE KEY BOARD)\n\nIF NOT \n\nTRY TO PRESS CTRL+SHIFT AT THE SAME (IN THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE KEY BOARD)\n\nCONTINUING PRESS THE FIRST ONE ,AND PRESS THGE OTHER ONE
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the qwerty keyboard was designed purposely to be difficult to use because the early type writers would get jammed if you typed too quickly. Now we are stuck with them.\n\nStrange but true\n\nThink about it, the logical place to put the vowels and other common letters would be in the asdf jkl; positions as that's where your fingers start from
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I had the exact same problem with my last keyboard, The key which is supposed to be " actually was @, and then the other way around. I just had to learn to live with it, until I got a new keyboard and now everything is normal, I tried everything to fix the problem with no success, I don't even know which made it switch from " to @ it just happened one day, so my advice would be to live with it and you will quickly learn to automatically go to the right key, either that or get a new keyboard.
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The symbol _ is called the underscore. You can type it by the combination Shift and - key.
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They have a keyboard with various "strokes."  Once entering the appropriate strokes for a symbol, it combines them into one.  I'm to understand it's a bit annoying to use.
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For the HTML codes for it go to http://whateverlife.com/ key bord trick works too depending where you are using them♥ some places you need the code.. guess it helps if i tell you key board trick alt button and number 3 on your number keyboard.. try diffrent numers to get diffrent things.. have fun
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Have you tried the page up and page down buttons on the keyboard? I am just guessing, not sure.
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In depends on your keyboard.\nIn my one it is under backspace and over enter.\n\nIt will be some where near there
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your problem is just that your thumb is way more active than your index finger on your left hand.\nthe current keyboards aren't designed properly, in fact the reason for their design was so that typewriter salesmen could wow there hosts by typing out typwriter quickly and easily using only the top keys.  plus you are probably right handed
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Actually it's more than one key.To get that command to work you have to beat the keyboard with your face.
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Dude, let me know when you figure this out.  I'm also dying to know.  Is it really so hard to hit an extra two keys when typing words like "are" or "you?"
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Using your 8 fingers and 2 thumbs.. the keyboard is laid out so that the most popular letters are easy to access quickly. QW ZX PL are all on the corners of the keyboards. All the vowels are under or above the 8 main finger positions (ASDF and JKL:)
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Standard computer keyboards have the @ above the 2 and the " above the '.\n\nThat's the way all keyboards are designed. I don't think there's a way to switch them around.\n\nI haven't seen the " above the 2 since the old mechanical typewriters.\n\nThis is the way it is now.  Every keyboard made is this way. I would really recommend getting used to it. It's not going to change.
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The only reason I can think of is that the German language uses many more z's than English does and therefore, the keyboard has been rearranged to reflect that.  Look at the function of the English keyboard.  Do you think a more commonly used letter like S or T would function well where the Z is?  No, because it's a tricky letter to key - along with letters that commonly follow the letters R, S, T, Y in English, having such a letter in the Z spot would be inefficient, much the same way that having the Z in the Y spot makes typing in German much more efficient.  BTW, how do you type a vowel with an umlout on a German keyboard?  Is there a second shift key for that?