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Race #1710

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Official speed 47.88 wpm (63.91 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start July 16, 2009 6:54:56am UTC
Race Finish July 16, 2009 6:56:00am UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 3)
Points 0.00
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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.