Qwerty (benpace)

Race #1432

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Official speed 59.36 wpm (66.31 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start August 11, 2011 12:47:58pm UTC
Race Finish August 11, 2011 12:49:04pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 4)
Accuracy 93.0%
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.