View Pit Stop page for race #369 by jmc2000 — Ghost race
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| Official speed | 45.93 wpm (66.62 seconds elapsed during race) |
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| Race Start | May 21, 2010 4:26:38pm UTC |
| Race Finish | May 21, 2010 4:27:45pm UTC |
| Outcome | Win (1 of 5) |
| 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. |