In addition, I don't know if its accurate, but I have heard in the past that the QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typists who were typing faster than t

In addition, I don't know if its accurate, but I have heard in the past that the QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow down typists who were typing faster than the manual typewriters could handle at the time. It would make sense that the key layout would be less than ideal for the typical right hander.