QWERTY keyboard
Typical typing arrangement
A QWERTY keyboard arranges letter keys with Q, W, E, R, T, and Y across the top left row—the layout standard on English-language typewriters and computers since the 1870s.
The arrangement was designed partly to prevent mechanical jamming on early typewriters by separating commonly paired letters.
Alternative layouts like Dvorak exist but never displaced QWERTY's dominance.
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