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typeracer

Pit Stop
Racer labros (silent1thug)
Race Number 44
Date Wed, 17 Oct 2012 12:55:17
Speed 46 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 90.1%
Rank 3rd place (out of 4)
Opponents hamuhamu (2nd place) melanie_614 (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)