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Pit Stop
Racer Dawson (dawsonswag)
Race Number 74
Date Sun, 22 Feb 2015 3:35:34
Speed 35 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 85.9%
Rank 2nd place (out of 3)
Opponents user0715 (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)