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Race Result Details |
| Racer | Proikismenos (proikismenos) |
| Race Number | 121 |
| Date | Thu, 12 Jan 2023 23:10:27 |
| Speed |
54 WPM
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| Accuracy | 93.4% |
| Rank | 1st place (out of 3) |
| Opponents | charlesb (3rd place) somamosa (2nd 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
(see stats)
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