View Pit Stop page for race #1678 by trash2zero — Ghost race
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| Official speed | 44.56 wpm (68.67 seconds elapsed during race) |
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| Race Start | November 25, 2010 5:49:18pm UTC |
| Race Finish | November 25, 2010 5:50:26pm UTC |
| Outcome | No win (2 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. |