View Pit Stop page for race #499 by vn_nb — Ghost race
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Official speed | 40.41 wpm (75.72 seconds elapsed during race) |
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Race Start | September 17, 2009 9:14:40pm UTC |
Race Finish | September 17, 2009 9:15:55pm UTC |
Outcome | No win (1 of 1) |
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. |