Richard (brontosaurus)

Race #60

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Official speed 45.43 wpm (67.36 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start September 7, 2015 6:14:40am UTC
Race Finish September 7, 2015 6:15:47am UTC
Outcome No win (3 of 5)
Accuracy 89.0%
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.