Tommy (towardsla)

Race #5

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Official speed 57.16 wpm (53.53 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start May 15, 2010 3:53:02pm UTC
Race Finish May 15, 2010 3:53:56pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 3)
Points 0.00
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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.