To solve this problem, Sholes and his colleagues invented the QWERTY keyboard. The purpose of this design was to create such a setting of the keys that the typing speed may be a little slow, but ...

Efficient or not, QWERTY remains the universal, standard keyboard, and after 150 years, that's worth celebrating — at least to aficionados in its hometown.

Sholes filed this patent in 1889, a year before his death. Google Patents But the biggest rival to challenge QWERTY was the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, developed by August Dvorak in the 1930s.