I know this sounds stupid but why are the letters on the keyboard not in alphabetical order?

Question

I know this sounds stupid but why are the letters on the keyboard not in alphabetical order?

Answer

The current keyboard layout, called the QWERTY, was developed over a hundred years ago by typewriter inventer C. L. Sholes. It 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, Sholes placed letters that would be used together often as far apart as possible, like the letters quotTquot and quotHquot.