Sun (o0sun0o)

Race #493

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Official speed 68.49 wpm (75.34 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start February 2, 2013 10:53:54am UTC
Race Finish February 2, 2013 10:55:09am UTC
Outcome No win (3 of 5)
Accuracy 97.0%
Points 0.00
Text #269 (Length: 430 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. In a manner of speaking, he slowed down the typists to prevent jamming, and thus speed up the typing.