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Pit Stop
Racer neil00 (iamwsz)
Race Number 29
Date Tue, 30 Oct 2012 8:10:19
Speed 42 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 97.3%
Rank 4th place (out of 5)
Opponents jackrrish (3rd 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)