QWERTY was not designed to intentionally slow typists down

[Gregory Ewing]

Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Even on a modern keyboard, out of the ten most common digraphs:
> 
> th he in er an re nd at on nt
> 
> only er/re use consecutive keys,

Also keep in mind that E and R being adjacent on the
keyboard does *not* mean they're adjacent in the type
basket -- they're actually separated by two other
characters (D and C). That's only one less than
I and N (separated by U, J nd M).

-- 
Greg