Ben (ironlack)

Race #50

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Official speed 49.48 wpm (79.55 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start June 15, 2014 6:44:13am UTC
Race Finish June 15, 2014 6:45:33am UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 4)
Accuracy 97.0%
Points 0.00
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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.