View Pit Stop page for race #1058 by littlebear — Ghost race
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| Official speed | 47.10 wpm (83.57 seconds elapsed during race) |
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| Race Start | May 16, 2009 11:59:24pm UTC |
| Race Finish | May 17, 2009 12:00:48am UTC |
| Outcome | No win (3 of 4) |
| Points | 0.00 |
| Text | #270 (Length: 328 characters) 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. |