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There is no evidence that points to QWERTY being designed to be inefficient.

http://www.economist.com/node/196071

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/fact-of-fiction-t...

There is plenty of evidence that points to it being inefficient, however. Regardless of the various QWERTY origin stories, it's not a very good touch-typing layout compared to Dvorak or Colemak.

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