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Deciding which way round to print the question mark wasn't as straightforward as you might think, incidentally. In its traditional orientation, with the curve to the right, it appears to cup an ear towards the preceding prose, which seems natural enough, though perhaps only because that's how we are used to seeing it. But people have always played around with it. In the 16th century the printer Henry Denham had the sophisticated idea of reversing the mark when indicating a rhetorical question (to differentiate it from a direct question), but it didn't catch on.

Game Time WPM Accuracy
229682 2022-09-24 20:49:52 134.95 98.5%
229681 2022-09-24 20:46:57 127.33 97.8%
72109 2020-06-19 03:10:14 121.32 98.3%
69617 2020-06-11 23:45:42 99.24 97.1%
50732 2020-03-17 21:41:52 119.33 97.4%
49740 2020-03-13 19:08:15 126.24 98.7%
49739 2020-03-13 19:07:17 115.59 97%
49738 2020-03-13 19:06:14 110.04 96.3%
16436 2019-05-27 16:49:19 105.10 97.5%
16435 2019-05-27 16:47:01 99.26 97.7%