QWERTY
Provided by the ASK Keyboard Dictionary
QWERTY is one of several alphabetical key arrangements named after the first six of such keys that appear on a given keyboard. It is the most common such arrangement used worldwide, and the only one not confined to a particular region or language, which is the case for derivatives such as AZERTY, QWERTZ and QZERTY. The QWERTY arrangement was created by Christopher Latham Sholes in the early 1870s. A commonly repeated misconception about its creation was that it was designed to slow down typing and/or prevent jamming on mechanical typewriters. That said, some believe QWERTY to still be suboptimal and unergonomic, so Colemak and Dvorak (for example) were created to address its perceived shortcoming.
