Jay (complexmuffin)

Race #78

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Official speed 107.81 wpm (49.09 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start May 5, 2020 6:56:54am UTC
Race Finish May 5, 2020 6:57:43am UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 4)
Opponents 1. jazzhands_1 (110.22 wpm)
3. christrilling (96.18 wpm)
4. sackclothandashes (82.62 wpm)
Accuracy 98.0%
Points 140.15
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In the early days of computer chess people used to estimate that it would be ten years until a computer (or program) was world champion. But after ten years had passed, it seemed that the day a computer would become world champion was still more than ten years away... This is just one more piece of evidence for the rather recursive Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.