Guest
Record your races with a typeracer account:
Create Your Account- Save your race history and scores.
- Customize your profile and racecar.
- It’s free, why not?
Text Details
 
|
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.
— The Greatest Stories Never Told
 (book)
by Rick Beyer
|
| Language: | English |
This text has been typed
more than
1000 times:
| Avg. speed: | 53 WPM |
|---|---|
| Avg. accuracy: | 95.6% |
Top 10 scores for this text
| User | Speed | Accuracy | Points | Place | Date | Options | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joshua728 | 232 WPM | 100.0% | 232 | 1/2 | Oct. 9, 2021 |
|
| 2 | arenasnow2 | 209 WPM | N/A | N/A | 1/3 | Aug. 27, 2010 |
|
| 3 | sahibprime | 204 WPM | 100.0% | 204 | 1/2 | March 11, 2024 |
|
| 4 | arenasnow | 195 WPM | 100.0% | 195 | 1/2 | May 26, 2019 |
|
| 5 | mako640 | 188 WPM | 100.0% | 188 | 1/2 | Jan. 13, 2019 |
|
| 6 | slowaccount | 172 WPM | 99.0% | 172 | 1/2 | June 9, 2019 |
|
| 7 | sidd_ | 171 WPM | 100.0% | 171 | 1/2 | Feb. 1, 2019 |
|
| 8 | atthetop | 171 WPM | 98.0% | 171 | 1/2 | Feb. 8, 2022 |
|
| 9 | deroche1 | 169 WPM | 99.0% | 169 | 1/2 | Dec. 20, 2018 |
|
| 10 | evestay | 166 WPM | 99.0% | 166 | 1/2 | Jan. 2, 2024 |
|