Why are the positions of Z and Y on the German keyboard different from those on the ordinary keyboard?

Let’s talk about the keyboard layout first: QWERTY keyboard was first used on typewriters. The earliest keyboard layout was ABCDEFG..., but because the quality of early typewriters was not good, the connecting rods of each key would squeeze each other and malfunction when typing. Christopher Latham Sholes later avoided this problem by shuffling the letters to slow down typing. After applying for a patent in 1868, mass production began in 1874. It is still used today.

In 1932, August Dvorak proactively considered that this fault might not happen again in the future, so he studied the order of English letters and invented Dvorak gram keyboard, the advantages are as follows:

*Easy to interact with both hands, making input more comfortable

*Commonly used letters are placed in the middle row where the index finger and middle finger are, which can improve the input efficiency; accordingly, the least The letters are in the bottom row where they are hardest to reach

*The right-hand arrangement has more commonly used letters, because there are more right-handers

*The letter arrangement makes the input gradually move from the edge to the center< /p>

However, due to the previous mass production of QWERTY, the Dvo?ák keyboard did not perform well in the market.

HTC7 Pro QWERTZ keyboard

Wrong. To put it bluntly, the arrangement of QWERTZ is due to the phonetic characteristics of German: there are very few words related to Y in German words, but the letter Z is very widely used. Therefore, for the sake of ease of use, we simply put the uncommon Y in the uncommon corner position. Unfortunately, other layouts still use the previous QWERTY arrangement that now seems unreasonable.

The above picture is a schematic diagram of the keyboard layout common in Yugoslavia (six countries)

In fact, the QWERTZ keyboard is widely used not only in the German-speaking area, but also in many Slavic countries in Central and Eastern Europe and the Balkans Because of their language characteristics, they often use this type of keyboard.