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Race Result Details |
| Racer | Jason (messagease) |
| Race Number | 737 |
| Date | Thu, 6 Sep 2012 04:24:34 +0000 |
| Speed |
47 WPM
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| Accuracy | 95.5% |
| Rank | 2nd place (out of 5) |
| Opponents | jojoman46 (1st place) |
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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
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