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Pit Stop
Racer Noa (fluffypanda)
Race Number 292
Date Thu, 3 Sep 2015 17:39:42
Speed 44 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 91.7%
Rank 1st place (out of 4)

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)