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QWERTY keyboard
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In fact, the QWERTY keyboard layout is so [blank] simply because it won a practicality battle almost 150 years ago. In the 19th century, we're using typewriters to write and every error means you have to start [blank] with the entire page, but the QWERTY keyboard found an elegant way of [blank] this, by encouraging the typist to type one letter with one hand and one letter with another hand.
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In fact, the QWERTY keyboard layout is so dominant simply because it won a practicality battle almost 150 years ago. In the 19th century, we're using typewriters to write and every error means you have to start over with the entire page, but the QWERTY keyboard found an elegant way of alleviating this, by encouraging the typist to type one letter with one hand and one letter with another hand.
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