Text #269

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.

—from The Greatest Stories Never Told, a book by Rick Beyer

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275. neynt (neynt) 141.80 96% 2012-07-29
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280. syentest (syentest) 141.58 2008-12-18
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Long Texts 82 92.61 January 3, 2017
Instant Death Mode 49 86.87 April 1, 2010
TypeRacer Classic 1 78.88 May 14, 2021