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Racer Mark (mark555)
Race Number 252
Date Sat, 21 Apr 2012 18:23:53 +0000
Speed 79 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 97.5%
Rank 2nd place (out of 5)
Opponents bhuvan_rawal (3rd place) byauch (1st place) pius_88 (4th place)

Text typed:

Sholes consulted with an educator who helped him analyze the most common pairings of letters in the English language. He then split up those letters 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. In a manner of speaking, he slowed down the typists to prevent jamming, and thus speed up the typing.
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