View Pit Stop page for race #129 by njwheelbarrow — Ghost race
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| Official speed | 47.31 wpm (64.68 seconds elapsed during race) |
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| Race Start | April 16, 2011 11:50:47am UTC |
| Race Finish | April 16, 2011 11:51:51am UTC |
| Outcome | No win (2 of 4) |
| 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. |