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Pit Stop
Racer Jackson (likeaboss24)
Race Number 72
Date Thu, 6 Jun 2013 11:50:51
Speed 34 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 90.7%
Rank 5th place (out of 5)
Opponents bluefire1 (1st place) sarahcassidy (2nd place) sophiedtkh (4th 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)