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Pit Stop
Racer Maria (isabelbushnell)
Race Number 1247
Date Sun, 3 Apr 2016 19:58:54
Speed 38 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 94.4%
Rank 5th place (out of 5)
Opponents vijaymathur (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)