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Originally Posted by ClunkintheUK
On the subject of type setting.
The keys on a computer keyboard were actually laid out like they are to slow down typists in the early days of the type writer, so that the letter stamp thingys, no idea what they are called, wouldn't clash and get tangled.
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Close, but no cigar. It was laid out in such a way that the most frequently used letters were far enough apart not to clash.
If it were to slow them down it would have only done so until they learned the new layout.