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Pit Stop
Racer Victoria (vgallogly)
Race Number 1
Date Tue, 29 Oct 2013 0:23:39
Speed 77 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 94.8%
Rank 1st place (out of 5)
Opponents mattyg101 (5th 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)