PT131.S3.Q21

PrepTest 131 - Section 3 - Question 21

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Historian: The standard "QWERTY" configuration of the keys on typewriters and computer keyboards was originally designed to be awkward and limit typing speed. ████ ███ ███████ █████ ███████████ █████ ███ ██████████ ██ ████████ ████ ████ ██████ ██ █████ ███████████ ███████████ ████ █████ ████ ████████ ██████████████ ████ █████████ ████ ██████ ███ ██████ ██████ █████ █████ ████████████ ████████ ██████ ███████ ████████ ███ ███████ ███ █████████████ ██ █████████ ██ █ ███ ████████ █████████████ ███████ ███ █████████████ █████ ████ ██████ ████ █████████ ██████████ ████

Summary

The standard QWERTY style of keyboard was designed to slow down typing speed, because it was originally designed for early typewriters. These typewriters could jam if keys were typed too quickly. There exist faster keyboard configurations, but these aren’t used widely, because it would be too expensive and inconvenient to switch away from the QWERTY configuration, which people are used to.

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The original purpose of the QWERTY configuration has resulted in the standardization of a format that doesn’t allow for the fastest typing speed.

If keyboards were designed for something that didn’t jam when typing too quickly, a non-QWERTY keyboard configuration might have been used.

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21.

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a

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b

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c

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d

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e

If the keyboard ███ ████ ████████ ███ ██████████ ████ ██ █████ ███ ████ ████ ████████ ██ █████ ██████ ██████

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