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A keyboard layout engineered to slow you down, now too entrenched to fix.
means The standard English keyboard arrangement, named for the first six letters in its top row.
from Designed by Christopher Latham Sholes in the 1870s for the typewriter, reportedly spacing common letter pairs apart so the mechanical typebars jammed less often.
Built-in proofTypewriter spelled entirely on the top row.
Rival existsDvorak layout claims speed; few converted.
Survives by inertiaNo jams left, yet nobody switches.