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Pit Stop
Racer Juan Luis (digidon)
Race Number 7
Date Fri, 28 Jun 2013 1:07:25
Speed 82 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 98.8%
Rank 2nd place (out of 4)
Opponents fojas12 (3rd place) oreodoodle (1st place) ralphachua (4th 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)