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Pit Stop
Racer Aidan (gigantes)
Race Number 11
Date Tue, 6 Nov 2012 18:30:13
Speed 38 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 93.4%
Rank 4th place (out of 10)
Opponents theenemycube (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)