View Pit Stop page for race #350 by ieve — Ghost race
| Official speed | 29.12 wpm (105.08 seconds elapsed during race) |
|---|---|
| Race Start | August 16, 2010 8:26:55am UTC |
| Race Finish | August 16, 2010 8:28:40am UTC |
| Outcome | No win (2 of 4) |
| 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. |