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Pit Stop
Racer Chantelle (chantelliar)
Race Number 8
Date Fri, 11 May 2012 17:02:01
Speed 36 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 90.1%
Rank 4th place (out of 5)
Opponents bekahjoli (3rd place) crazymom101 (1st place) tjpauling (5th 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)