View Pit Stop page for race #273 by tinkureddy — Ghost race
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| Official speed | 39.96 wpm (76.58 seconds elapsed during race) |
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| Race Start | February 19, 2010 11:47:39pm UTC |
| Race Finish | February 19, 2010 11:48:55pm UTC |
| Outcome | No win (3 of 3) |
| 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. |