It’s commonly known, to a certain kind of person at least, that the normal QWERTY keyboard layout is not particularly well suited to typing English prose. The usual story is that it was designed to intentionally slow typists down so that the physical hammer mechanism used by early typewriters would have time to clear between key punches so as to not jam. Probably, that’s a bit suspect. But certainly the design was affected by the implementation on these typewriters to some degree.
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