The moderm english keyboard is designed to SLOW US DOWN!!! When manual typerwriter keyboards were keys that flew up to strike the paper, if one typed too fast, the keys would jam up., So they made the qwerty keyboard to make people tyope slower.
They arranged it also so that demonstrators could type the word typerwriter using the top row only.
When the time came to choose between the qwerty and the much more efficient Dvorak keyboard, the US Navy went with qwerty and we have been stuck with it ever since.
The Dvorak has all the vowels and common consonants together allowing one to type faster with less carpal tunnel problems.
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