A QWERTY keyboard is a standard keyboard layout commonly used for typing in the English language. The name " QWERTY " comes from the first six letters in the top-left corner of the keyboard. Today, the QWERTY keyboard is the most commonly found and used computer keyboard in the United States and the United Kingdom. Below is an image of the keyboard keys layout on the QWERTY keyboard . The QWERTY keyboard dates all the way back to the first typewriters. Why are the keys arranged this way, rather than alphabetically? Even after knowing the demerits and inefficiency of the QWERTY keyboard , it brings us to the question of why the world is still using the QWERTY keyboard . Before the release of typewriters, there was no such trend of typing among people.