View Pit Stop page for race #167 by lysergs — Ghost race
| Official speed | 35.02 wpm (87.38 seconds elapsed during race) |
|---|---|
| Race Start | January 18, 2012 12:36:55pm UTC |
| Race Finish | January 18, 2012 12:38:22pm UTC |
| Outcome | Win (1 of 2) |
| Accuracy | 97.0% |
| 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. |