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Pit Stop
Racer Naomi (nschaefe5310)
Race Number 42
Date Thu, 1 Oct 2015 12:42:18
Speed 31 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 90.1%
Rank 2nd place (out of 5)
Opponents geitorwes (3rd place) hennerz204 (1st 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)