QWERTY
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QWERTY is the standard keyboard layout used on most computer keyboards and smartphones, where the letters Q, W, E, R, T, and Y appear in the top row of keys. This layout became widely used after it was popularized on typewriters and continues to be the dominant keyboard design today.
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- History
- Differences from modern layout
- Substituting characters
- Combined characters
- Contemporaneous alternatives
- Properties
- Computer keyboards
- Diacritical marks
- Other keys and characters
- <span class="anchor" id="English"></span><span class="anchor" id="Czech"></span><span class="anchor" id="Danish"></span><span class="anchor" id="Dutch"></span><span class="anchor" id="Estonian"></span><span class="anchor" id="Faroese"></span><span class="anchor" id="Icelandic"></span><span class="anchor" id="Irish"></span><span class="anchor" id="Italian"></span><span class="anchor" id="Latvian"></span><span class="anchor" id="Lithuanian"></span><span class="anchor" id="Maltese"></span><span class="anchor" id="Norwegian"></span><span class="anchor" id="Polish"></span><span class="anchor" id="Portuguese"></span><span class="anchor" id="Romanian"></span><span class="anchor" id="Slovak"></span><span class="anchor" id="Spanish"></span><span class="anchor" id="Swedish"></span><span class="anchor" id="Turkish"></span><span class="anchor" id="Vietnamese"></span>Specific language variants
- Multilingual variants
- United Kingdom (Extended) Layout <span class="anchor" id="United Kingdom (Extended) Layout"></span>
- Windows
- ChromeOS
- US-International <span class="anchor" id="US-international"></span><span class="anchor" id="US International"></span><span class="anchor" id="US international"></span>
- US-International in the Netherlands
- Apple International English Keyboard
- Canadian Multilingual Standard
- <span id="Finnish multilingual keyboard"></span>Finnish multilingual
- EurKEY
- Alternatives
- Comparison to other keyboard input systems
- Half QWERTY
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
thumb|right|A laptop computer keyboard using the QWERTY layout thumb|right|The BlackBerry, which popularized the use of QWERTY keyboards on [[smartphones in the late-2000s]]
QWERTY ( ) is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets; the name comes from the order of the first six keys on the top letter row of the keyboard: . The design evolved for the quick typing of English on typewriters.