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typeracer

Pit Stop
Racer Garrus (snibbles)
Race Number 4
Date Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:21:22
Speed 35 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 81.2%
Rank 3rd place (out of 5)
Opponents epicstalkercrayon (4th place) hotdoglord (1st place) superman99 (2nd 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)