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Pit Stop
Racer wG (wg_scopez)
Race Number 34
Date Sat, 11 Jun 2016 19:08:11
Speed 51 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 91.7%
Rank 1st place (out of 4)
Opponents dzignas (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)