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Curious Kids: why do we have a QWERTY keyboard instead of putting the letters in alphabetical order?
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Has anyone ever tested a keyboard arranged in alphabetical order, with someone learning it that way from scratch? Is it really that much worse than Qwerty? And wouldn't it be quicker to
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