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typeracer

Pit Stop
Racer Sickness2pt0 (sickness3pt0)
Race Number 29
Date Fri, 16 Mar 2012 18:10:14
Speed 55 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 90.4%
Rank 1st place (out of 5)
Opponents a_hotter_girl (3rd place) blackcorbra (2nd place)

Text typed:

Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyboard. These competitions are somewhat underplayed in the conventional history. In fact, typing contests and demonstrations of speed were fairly common during this period. They involved many different machines, with various manufacturers claiming to hold the speed record.
— (book) by Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis (see stats)