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Pit Stop
Racer Fred (midasb28)
Race Number 1
Date Thu, 16 Feb 2017 22:27:41
Speed 125 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 99.2%
Rank 1st place (out of 5)
Opponents blezzedfire (3rd place) zoniados11 (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)