Text race history for betty (battery)

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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.

Game Time WPM Accuracy
3401 2009-08-21 23:24:30 53.78
3385 2009-08-21 22:58:09 52.46
2460 2009-08-03 19:35:15 52.99
2117 2009-07-25 23:27:34 49.83