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Pit Stop
Racer Raman (rshant)
Race Number 330
Date Sun, 30 Mar 2014 16:58:53
Speed 33 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 87%
Rank 4th place (out of 4)
Opponents danigforps (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)