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Pit Stop
Racer Alex (alexandriaw)
Race Number 126
Date Mon, 4 Nov 2013 19:25:56
Speed 27 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 96.2%
Rank 4th place (out of 5)
Opponents xilophone (1st 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)