Why do we still use the QWERTY keyboard layout today?

We still use the QWERTY keyboard today because it became familiar and easy to use, even though there are better layouts out there.

Imagine you're used to eating a certain kind of cereal every morning, it's comfortable, even if there’s a more exciting option. That’s how most people feel about QWERTY. It was created a long time ago, in the 1800s, when typewriters were new.

The first keyboards had letters that were close together on the keys, but when people typed quickly, their fingers would get tangled up like spaghetti. To fix this problem, someone rearranged the letters so that common letter pairs were farther apart. That’s how QWERTY got its strange order!

Even though we have computers now, and typing is much easier than it was back then, most people still use QWERTY because they learned it when they were young, just like you learn to read by looking at books. If everyone switched to a new keyboard layout, it would be like learning a whole new language all over again!