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Pit Stop
Racer Ahmad (ahmad_bin_usman)
Race Number 519
Date Sat, 17 Nov 2012 16:10:07
Speed 60 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 94.8%
Rank 1st place (out of 5)
Opponents jak17 (4th place) semangat45 (3rd place)

Text typed:

Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the most common pairings of letters in the English language. He then split up those letters so that their type bars were farther apart and less likely to jam. That in turn dictated the layout of the keyboard - known as QWERTY, for the first five letters in the upper row.
— (book) by Rick Beyer (see stats)