QWERTY is the keyboard layout in the U.S for most keyboards. This layout was used in early typing days to slow down typists in order to have the typewriter in use not jam as often due to lack of typist's speed. QWERTY is named as such because "Q.W.E.R.T.Y" are the first 6 letters on the keyboard. (See DVORAK for information on a different layout.)


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