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Race Result Details |
| Racer | Alicia (botdf24) |
| Race Number | 137 |
| Date | Tue, 3 Apr 2012 17:55:38 |
| Speed |
42 WPM
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| Accuracy | 84.7% |
| Rank | 3rd place (out of 5) |
| Opponents | earslan (1st place) wil55 (4th place) |
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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
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