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Pit Stop
Racer Lars (der_moeller)
Race Number 38
Date Mon, 22 Aug 2016 19:46:15
Speed 63 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 93.8%
Rank 2nd place (out of 3)
Opponents snerulite (1st 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)