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Pit Stop
Racer Amani (amani7)
Race Number 6695
Date Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:19:29
Speed 30 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 94.1%
Rank 4th place (out of 5)
Opponents njaliyathuakhil (1st place) vikasw (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)