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What is QWERTY Keyboard

QWERTY is the most common modern-day keyboard layout on English-language computer and typewriter keyboards. A QWERTY keyboard layout commonly used by English speaking nations such as the USA and Australia.

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It takes its name from the first six characters seen in the far left of the keyboard’s top first row of letters.

The QWERTY keyboard layout was devised and created in the early 1870s by Christopher Sholes, a newspaper editor and printer who lived in Milwaukee.

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