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Race Result Details |
| Racer | Tegra (tegra) |
| Race Number | 108 |
| Date | Wed, 29 Jul 2015 14:42:15 +0000 |
| Speed |
52 WPM
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| Accuracy | 90.1% |
| Rank | 2nd place (out of 2) |
| Opponents | kaz47 (1st place) |
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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.
— The Greatest Stories Never Told
 (book)
by Rick Beyer
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