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typeracer

Pit Stop
Racer Long (greenlongvn)
Race Number 1710
Date Fri, 25 May 2012 1:04:57
Speed 45 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 91.7%
Rank 2nd place (out of 3)
Opponents kentju (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)