Race Updates Discord About Merch
Home Profile History Competitions Texts Upgrade

typeracer

Pit Stop
Racer fenrich (fenrich08)
Race Number 163
Date Tue, 19 Apr 2016 13:51:48
Speed 55 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 95.7%
Rank 3rd place (out of 4)
Opponents chris7ka (1st place) hillmadam (2nd place)

Text typed:

Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyboard. These competitions are somewhat underplayed in the conventional history. In fact, typing contests and demonstrations of speed were fairly common during this period. They involved many different machines, with various manufacturers claiming to hold the speed record.
— (book) by Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis (see stats)