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Random Key Arrangement Is Weird
Can typists imagine how different life would have been if the keys on the keyboard were arranged alphabetically? Back in the days of manual typewriters, the letters were arranged in order, but the keys would constantly jam because people memorized the order so much that they typed too fast.
Legend has it that to avoid problems, a person named Christopher Latham Sholes invented the QWERTY arrangement, meant to slow down typists. The order had the letters commonly used situated in spots that are hard to reach.
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