Alpha (alphasaur)

Race #189

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Official speed 50.96 wpm (77.24 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start June 16, 2015 6:10:27am UTC
Race Finish June 16, 2015 6:11:44am UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 5)
Accuracy 99.0%
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.