al (aleksus)

Race #375

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Official speed 37.97 wpm (80.59 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start August 21, 2010 10:05:20am UTC
Race Finish August 21, 2010 10:06:40am UTC
Outcome No win (1 of 1)
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.