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Pit Stop
Racer ramya (ramyakrishna)
Race Number 89
Date Fri, 15 Feb 2013 9:51:44
Speed 31 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 94.4%
Rank 1st place (out of 4)

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)