Philip (mil0ck)

Race #214

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Official speed 72.26 wpm (71.41 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start June 26, 2014 10:46:06pm UTC
Race Finish June 26, 2014 10:47:17pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 3)
Opponents 1. auslady (78.79 wpm)
Accuracy 94.0%
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.