Text race history for Pat (platts)

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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.

Game Time WPM Accuracy
6585 2014-12-07 18:39:40 68.20 96%
6416 2014-12-04 05:55:07 61.09 95%
180 2014-02-10 17:14:13 58.57 96%