See also: QWERTY (homonymy)

Keyboard of Typewriter patented in 1868 by Christopher Latham Sholes, it draws its name from its first six keys.

The keys corresponding to the pairs of the most used letters in the English language are distributed to the extremes of the keyboard. In this manner, the keying speed is slowed down and the stems are more rarely wedged.

The arms manufacturer Eliphalet Remington acquired this keyboard in 1873 and popularized it by the massive production of typewriters.

An anecdote wants that the letters of the word in typewriter (“typewriter” in English) are all on the same line for many demonstrations of the salesmen. This is in particular remarkable because it is the longest word of the English language, existing in all the dictionaries, which one can write by using only one line of keys.

There exists however of other types of keyboard QWERTY as those which one can find in Spain for example from which the keys are laid out as follows:

Internal bonds

• Of other provisions of keyboard: AZERTY, QWERTY and accents, Dvorak, QWERTZ, ZHJAYSCPG.
• Correspondance enters the keyboard qwerty and the keyboard azerty

Simple: QWERTY