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QWERTY, a Rare card
QWERTY is a keyboard layout for Latin-script alphabets, the name comes from the order of the first six keys on the top letter row of the keyboard: QWERTY.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 66
- Power
- 142
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 340,000
Power 142 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
QWERTY quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the QWERTY card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The design evolved for the quick typing of ______ on typewriters.
Answer
English. The design evolved for the quick typing of English on typewriters. From the QWERTY article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The QWERTY design is based on a layout included on the Sholes and Glidden typewriter sold by E. Remington and Sons from ____.
Answer
1870s. The QWERTY design is based on a layout included on the Sholes and Glidden typewriter sold by E. Remington and Sons from 1874. From the QWERTY article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
A. A 3,900,000 · QWERTY 340,000 · John Blacking 6,900 · Frank Hawthorne 3,300 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The design evolved for the quick typing of English on typewriters.
- The QWERTY design is based on a layout included on the Sholes and Glidden typewriter sold by E. Remington and Sons from 1874.
- The layout became popular with the success of the Remington No. 2 of 1878 and remains in widespread use as a de facto standard on computers, as of 2026.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The QWERTY article was read about 340,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 66: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get QWERTY
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, QWERTY (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : MichaelMaggs, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
