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Pit Stop
Racer Dvorak (dvoraktrainer)
Race Number 1757
Date Tue, 10 Feb 2015 5:54:42
Speed 54 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 91.4%
Rank 4th place (out of 4)
Opponents coraborealis (3rd place) mrfire12 (2nd place) porkandbeans (1st place)

Text typed:

Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyboard. These competitions are somewhat underplayed in the conventional history. In fact, typing contests and demonstrations of speed were fairly common during this period. They involved many different machines, with various manufacturers claiming to hold the speed record.
— (book) by Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis (see stats)