View Pit Stop page for race #948 by jothan — Ghost race
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| Official speed | 41.17 wpm (74.33 seconds elapsed during race) |
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| Race Start | March 24, 2009 2:28:56pm UTC |
| Race Finish | March 24, 2009 2:30:10pm UTC |
| Outcome | Win (1 of 5) |
| Points | 0.00 |
| Text | #271 (Length: 255 characters) 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. |