Serik (akademic)

Race #460

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Official speed 46.22 wpm (85.16 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start January 24, 2013 11:10:12am UTC
Race Finish January 24, 2013 11:11:37am UTC
Outcome No win (3 of 3)
Opponents 2. kayoshi (47.85 wpm)
Accuracy 86.0%
Points 0.00
Text #270 (Length: 328 characters)

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.