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The quick brown cat jumped over the lazy dog

Something that people who failed typing would type. See retard.

The real phrase is, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog", and it's a typing excercise that uses all 26 letters....go ahead....count them off.
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, sir!

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The quick brown cat jumped over the lazy dog

The correct sentence is 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'.
'The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog' is wrong, there is no 's'.

The quick brown cat jumped over the lazy dog

This phrase means nothing.
Bottomburp appears to be correct.
How did you find it? I hope you didn't search for it.

The quick brown cat jumped over the lazy dog

...wait, wait, wait..actually you don't use the letters F,S, and X so that really don't work lol

The quick brown cat jumped over the lazy dog

1) A sentence proliferated by people who get "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" wrong.

2) Sarcasm

The quick brown cat jumped over the lazy dog

it is a stupid example of pointless typing practice
as useful as typing "computer" a thousand times over
no matter how many times you practice, you'll never type "z" very efficiently
so give it up
try typing things that matter
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... I'm sorry I lit your house on fire
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