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QWERTY has become tradition.

The first typewriters DID have alphabetical layout, but they got too many hammer clashes and the resulting jams, slowing use.

QWERTY was developed to significantly reduce hammer clashes thus making typing on early machines faster. As almost all typewriters became QWERTY most , then all typists were trained on it and nothing else.

It is still tradition, even though computers and modern typewriters do not have the hammer clash problem it was developed to fix.

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