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Racer suiso (suisosan)
Race Number 1392
Date Sun, 12 Oct 2014 11:58:01 +0000
Speed 129 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 97.4%
Rank 1st place (out of 10)
Opponents cocoan (2nd place) eigh (10th place) mayo_tp01 (5th place) melanie2525 (7th place) mokori (6th place) olrepth (3rd place) spectol99 (9th place) welneco (8th place) yoru15 (4th place)

Text typed:

Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyboard. These competitions are somewhat underplayed in the conventional history. In fact, typing contests and demonstrations of speed were fairly common during this period. They involved many different machines, with various manufacturers claiming to hold the speed record.
Famous Fables of Economics, Chapter 4: Fable of the Keys (book) by Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis (see stats)