Our keyboards have a tale to tell of tangled keys and choices made.
Today we live with the arrangement and some lore about retraining and tradition.

So, I propose we look at this legacy and give it some personality, calling it by name:

Qwerty, code name for sidekick, hero or villain, backstory and all, what say you?

Qwerty could be the star of a love story, but just not my type.

(Sooner or later someone was going to say it.)
(Now I'm stealing lines from the joker... She was a printer's daughter, but she wasn't my type)

I'm not familiar

Isn't the folklore that it was a consciously inefficient design to slow down typists who would otherwise jam the keys?

I like the metaphor of consciously designing processes to slow us down so that we don't in our haste destroy things.

When there were mechanical keys that could get tangled - it was for the benefit of the owner, not the typist.
Now it's an artifact of technological evolution, an inherited characteristic - until we find it of some new use or advantage. #QWERTY?

Qwerty was a well-known hairdresser in Gay Paree long before the invasion of the alphabet people.

It's not just the speed, it's the position of the arms. The frequent letters had to be spaced apart to prevent overlap.

I'm still surprised phones and touch-screens continue the scrambled QWERTY tradition. Manufacturers should just stand up and say NO MORE.