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Race #4467

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Official speed 55.85 wpm (70.47 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start October 9, 2009 5:35:05pm UTC
Race Finish October 9, 2009 5:36:16pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 4)
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.