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* And of course there is the original QWERTY design itself. It was designed by Christopher Sholes for the explicit reason of keeping people from typing too fast. Keys next to one another, if pressed together in succession, would jam together. This was solved by placing common letter pairs (such as "SH" or "TH" and separating them on the keyboard. This also had the side effect of slowing typists who were unfamiliar with the keyboard layout, also helping to hide the problem until better mechanisms were introduced.
* Some smart phones rearrange buttons slightly on different iterations. While the QWERTY layout was the same on both the Samsung Blackjack II and the later iteration, the Jack, which ones did which symbols when the Function key is hit changed. Most annoying when you're trying to unlock your phone (which requires hitting S on the Blackjack II, but Z on the Jack).
** Android
** Samsung's smartphones swap the positions of the "back" and "multitasking" buttons when compared to stock Android devices.
** Samsung's 'phone web browser adds an extra key to the soft keyboard when the user is typing in its address/search bar. It makes room by shortening the space bar and moving the dot key one place to the left, so that [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|spaces.become.dots]] and periods become ".com".
* Some keyboard layouts group the F keys in sets of three instead of the usual four. This is usually an issue with those that use the F keys constantly and go by feel of the grouping. For example, accidentally pressing the F3 key when meaning F4 (because it's at the end of the first grouping), or F4 when meaning F5 (at the beginning of the second grouping).
* Perhaps the most horrendous problems is going from mechanical typewriter to electronic or, worse, straight to PC. It is entirely possible to hurt you finger by both thinking that keys on the upper lines should be substantially higher than those on the bottom lines combined with the force you would automatically hit the mechanical key with.
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