diff --git a/workloads/tsworkload_template b/workloads/tsworkload_template
index 70ce774b9c..16f0d2d568 100644
--- a/workloads/tsworkload_template
+++ b/workloads/tsworkload_template
@@ -215,9 +215,9 @@ updateproportion=0.00
 insertproportion=0.90
 
 # The distribution of requests across the keyspace
-requestdistribution=zipfian
-#requestdistribution=uniform
+requestdistribution=uniform
 #requestdistribution=latest
+#requestdistribution=zipfian
 
 # The name of the database table to run queries against
 table=usertable
diff --git a/workloads/workload_template b/workloads/workload_template
index 64296619fe..bbcb6f3c39 100644
--- a/workloads/workload_template
+++ b/workloads/workload_template
@@ -93,9 +93,9 @@ insertorder=hashed
 #insertorder=ordered
 
 # The distribution of requests across the keyspace
-requestdistribution=zipfian
-#requestdistribution=uniform
+requestdistribution=uniform
 #requestdistribution=latest
+#requestdistribution=zipfian
 
 # Percentage of data items that constitute the hot set
 hotspotdatafraction=0.2