View Pit Stop page for race #516 by shanntu — Ghost race
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| Official speed | 37.33 wpm (81.97 seconds elapsed during race) |
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| Race Start | October 6, 2010 9:58:57am UTC |
| Race Finish | October 6, 2010 10:00:19am UTC |
| Outcome | No win (2 of 3) |
| 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. |