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The letters are grouped in two ways:

- one to make the keys used most often (in English) close together in two groups

The most used keys are in two clusters at the "home" position for each hand.

- second to make keys used consecutively farther apart

The QWERTY computer keyboard is copied from the typewriter keyboard, which originally used metal arms that traveled up to strike the paper. If the frequently used keys were next to each other, they could cause the arms to jam together (while one was going up and the other was coming back). This can still happen with typewriters using the QWERTY layout, but much less frequently.

The QWERTY keyboard was designed by John Densmore for the first successful typing machines, created by inventor Christopher Latham Sholes in 1867. These were subsequently built and sold by the Remington company in 1873.

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