View Pit Stop page for race #315 by ambitious — Ghost race
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| Official speed | 35.13 wpm (87.11 seconds elapsed during race) |
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| Race Start | September 11, 2010 11:26:43pm UTC |
| Race Finish | September 11, 2010 11:28:10pm UTC |
| Outcome | No win (2 of 3) |
| 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. |