View Pit Stop page for race #2236 by rkarki42 — Ghost race
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Official speed | 51.20 wpm (100.78 seconds elapsed during race) |
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Race Start | December 20, 2011 3:28:23pm UTC |
Race Finish | December 20, 2011 3:30:03pm UTC |
Outcome | Win (1 of 4) |
Accuracy | 97.0% |
Points | 0.00 |
Text | #269 (Length: 430 characters) 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. In a manner of speaking, he slowed down the typists to prevent jamming, and thus speed up the typing. |