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typeracer

Pit Stop
Racer Old (tidmakai)
Race Number 3
Date Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:45:24
Speed 31 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 91.4%
Rank 3rd place (out of 7)
Opponents betonme515 (5th place) grammarman (1st place) lexilove113 (4th place) missmariahlynn (2nd place) mstorey3_ballislife (6th 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)