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Pit Stop
Racer Paul (masterxilo)
Race Number 114
Date Sun, 9 Dec 2012 10:21:50
Speed 41 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 85.3%
Rank 3rd place (out of 5)
Opponents annalize (1st place) gotennis2 (4th place) ketup (5th 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)