alona (alona)

Race #100

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Official speed 34.48 wpm (88.75 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start May 26, 2009 1:18:55pm UTC
Race Finish May 26, 2009 1:20:23pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 3)
Points 0.00
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Sholes split up the most common pairings of letters in the English language 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.