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variants
or QWERTY keyboard
often not capitalized
: a standard English-language typewriter or computer keyboard on which the first six letters of the second row are q, w, e, r, t, and y
QWERTY may not have had the most sensible keyboard arrangement, but it had the advantage that it had been out longer than most other designs. Throughout the 1880s, typewriters with a variety of keyboard layouts were sold, but in the 1890s the market moved more and more toward QWERTY, and by the first decade of the twentieth century it had taken over. Robert Pool
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