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Pit Stop
Racer vikas (vikasw)
Race Number 102
Date Thu, 16 Jan 2014 14:19:20
Speed 33 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 88.2%
Rank 3rd place (out of 5)
Opponents amani7 (4th place) njaliyathuakhil (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)