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Pit Stop
Racer Ujbuk (mithun_bhowmick)
Race Number 91
Date Sat, 9 Sep 2023 19:03:17
Speed 34 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 93.7%
Rank 5th place (out of 5)
Opponents sucee_ed (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)