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Pit Stop
Racer Gustaf (gurkn)
Race Number 45
Date Sat, 3 Nov 2012 20:30:27
Speed 42 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 84.7%
Rank 1st place (out of 3)
Opponents pdeabanico@yahoo.com (2nd 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)