Text race history for 👺John Lachney (valikor)

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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.

Game Time WPM Accuracy
8120 2009-02-13 18:43:39 146.65