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Pit Stop
Racer Chryssel (chryssel27)
Race Number 44
Date Sat, 22 Jun 2013 12:00:09
Speed 39 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 95.1%
Rank 2nd place (out of 2)

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)