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Your left hand does most of the typing

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Right-handed people love to think they are dominant, but not on a QWERTY keyboard. Because the layout was designed to separate common letters, vowels like A and E, as well as high-frequency consonants like T, S, and R, were all crammed onto the left side. As a result, the average English typist uses their left hand for roughly 56% of all keystrokes. Your supposedly weaker hand is secretly doing all the heavy lifting.

Your left hand does most of the typing
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