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You can type more than 3,000 words with your left hand alone.

Thanks to the standard keyboard’s configuration, your southpaw must do an inordinate amount of work. (Try typing words like “exaggerate,” “stewardesses,” and “abracadabra.”) By comparison, the right hand can type a mere 300 words on its own. Early typists worked so fast that they often jammed their machines. To slow them down, in the 1870s popular letters like A, E, T, I, and N were separated on the keyboard. Though improved technology negated the need for the inefficient layout, the QWERTY keyboard stuck . Our solution for solving the imbalance? Type with your toes.