View Pit Stop page for race #133 by _ansel_ — Ghost race
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Official speed | 39.88 wpm (76.73 seconds elapsed during race) |
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Race Start | August 11, 2009 12:44:13am UTC |
Race Finish | August 11, 2009 12:45:30am UTC |
Outcome | No win (4 of 4) |
Points | 0.00 |
Text | #271 (Length: 255 characters) 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. |