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Racer jaime (jaime97)
Race Number 134
Date Tue, 1 May 2012 18:50:02 +0000
Speed 46 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 91.7%
Rank 1st place (out of 5)
Opponents floresjuliana (3rd 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.
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