diligent (diligent)

Race #1261

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Official speed 43.97 wpm (89.52 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start May 11, 2012 11:47:06am UTC
Race Finish May 11, 2012 11:48:36am UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 2)
Accuracy 92.0%
Points 0.00
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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.