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Pit Stop
Racer ali (ali_khani)
Race Number 63
Date Sat, 24 Dec 2016 10:16:51
Speed 28 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 92.7%
Rank 2nd place (out of 4)
Opponents agungm (3rd place)

Text typed:

Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the English language 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)