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Pit Stop
Racer TooSlow (tooslow01)
Race Number 148
Date Wed, 18 Sep 2013 5:38:56
Speed 33 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 93.1%
Rank 5th place (out of 5)
Opponents aditya1sarode (4th 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)