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Racer Jocelyne (jrodrigue468)
Race Number 3
Date Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:21:13 +0000
Speed 25 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 92.1%
Rank 5th place (out of 7)
Opponents flowerbomb9 (4th place) jh831 (2nd place) jim137 (6th place) kacene4 (3rd place) llee008 (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.
The Greatest Stories Never Told (book) by Rick Beyer (see stats)