Sheng Yuan (xspeech32)

Race #1187

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Official speed 61.68 wpm (63.81 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start September 18, 2014 12:36:29pm UTC
Race Finish September 18, 2014 12:37:33pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 5)
Accuracy 93.0%
Points 0.00
Text #270 (Length: 328 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.