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Race #227

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Official speed 58.02 wpm (67.84 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start May 25, 2009 5:00:09am UTC
Race Finish May 25, 2009 5:01:17am UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 2)
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.