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Keyboard layout facts for kids

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Qwerty
The 104-key US QWERTY layout

Computers and other typing devices offer many different keyboard layouts for inputting data in different languages. The standard English keyboard layout is known as QWERTY. Various alternatives to the QWERTY layout have been suggested, many claiming advantages such as higher typing speeds. The most famous alternative is the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard.

Images for kids

  • Space-cadet

    MIT "space-cadet keyboard", an early keyboard with a large number of modifier keys. It was equipped with four keys for bucky bits (Control, Meta, Hyper, and Super); and three shift keys, called "shift", "top", and "front".

  • 4800-52-mainframe-dumb-terminal-keyboard

    4800-52 mainframe / dumb terminal keyboard, c. mid-1980s. Note the obscure configuration of modifier and arrow keys, line feed key, break key, blank keys, and repeat key.

  • Telegraph Keyboard

    Keyboard of a Letter-Printing Telegraph Set built by Siemens and Halske in Russia c. 1900

  • Physical keyboard layouts comparison ANSI ISO KS ABNT JIS

    A comparison of common physical layouts. The ISO-standard physical layout (center left) is common, e.g., in the United Kingdom. Compared with the ANSI layout (top left), the enter key is vertical rather than horizontal. In addition, the left shift key is smaller, to make room for an additional key to its right. The JIS physical layout (bottom right) is the basis for Japanese keyboards. Here it is the right-hand shift key that is smaller. Furthermore, the space bar and backspace key are also smaller, to make room for four additional keys.

  • Multi-keyboard

    A visual layout consisting of both factory-printed symbols and customized stickers

  • Albanian keyboard layout

    Albanian QWERTZ keyboard

  • Lettera 22 2

    Italian typewriter Olivetti Lettera 22

  • Screenshot 2014-09-05 14.46.43

    Qwpr keyboard layout (letters moved from QWERTY in teal, or yellow if different hand)

  • UKNCkeyboard

    JCUKEN keyboard of the UKNC computer

  • Dvorak-fr2-couleurs

    Dvorak-fr

  • Blickensderfer

    Original Blickensderfer keyboard

  • Blick-modified

    Blick keyboard for computers

  • Baybayin Keyboad by Gboard Screenshot

    A screenshot image of the baybayin keyboard on Gboard

  • Keyboard Layout Sanskrit

    InScript keyboard layout for Sanskrit

  • Devanagari INSCRIPT Keyboard

    A Devanagari InScript bilingual keyboard

  • 800px-KB Thai Kedmanee

    Thai Kedmanee keyboard layout

  • Pattajoti

    Thai Pattachote keyboard layout

  • Lao keyboard win

    Lao keyboard layout

  • Sinhala keyboard win

    Windows Sinhala layout

  • Sinhalese Keyboard

    Wijesekara layout

  • Tibetan Keyboard

    Tibetan keyboard layout

  • Urdukey

    The standard layout

  • Urdu Phonetic keyboard

    The phonetic keyboard layout on Windows 7

  • Keyboard layout ru phonetic

    Russian phonetic keyboard layout

  • Keyboard layout ua vista ext

    Ukrainian keyboard layout

  • OASYS100

    The "Thumb-shift" layout. Note the multiple letters and the two modifying keys. "シフト" means L/R Thumb Shift, "後退" means Backspace, "取消" means Delete, and "空白" means Space keys.

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