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Race #105

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Official speed 47.62 wpm (82.65 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start November 19, 2013 6:54:50pm UTC
Race Finish November 19, 2013 6:56:13pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 5)
Accuracy 95.0%
Points 0.00
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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.