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Pit Stop
Racer Ferrell (gtol)
Race Number 35
Date Sat, 25 Mar 2017 15:43:35
Speed 43 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 89.5%
Rank 3rd place (out of 5)
Opponents ddddwee1 (1st place) dreamin (5th place) floretli (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)