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Pit Stop
Racer benson (sopstad1)
Race Number 137
Date Mon, 14 May 2012 20:19:17
Speed 29 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 95.1%
Rank 1st place (out of 2)
Opponents sethsucksas (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)