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Pit Stop
Racer xhexhe (xhexheithuriel)
Race Number 62
Date Mon, 2 Mar 2015 8:53:12
Speed 40 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 92.4%
Rank 6th place (out of 9)
Opponents akuaku1234 (5th place) coccaine143 (3rd place) ghieeredneonblood (8th place) greatestpunk (1st place) yu1523 (7th 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)