View Pit Stop page for race #1359 by d_m_t — Ghost race
Official speed | 59.70 wpm (86.43 seconds elapsed during race) |
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Race Start | January 28, 2016 12:06:08am UTC |
Race Finish | January 28, 2016 12:07:34am UTC |
Outcome | No win (3 of 5) |
Opponents |
2. jeffreyelze (61.59 wpm) |
Accuracy | 92.0% |
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. |