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Pit Stop
Racer skybird (skybird321)
Race Number 788
Date Tue, 3 Apr 2012 5:56:13
Speed 47 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 93.1%
Rank 2nd place (out of 5)
Opponents runpreeti (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)