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Pit Stop
Racer Momo (morrisyo)
Race Number 152
Date Fri, 8 Jun 2012 6:11:19
Speed 44 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 95.9%
Rank 3rd place (out of 5)

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)