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typeracer

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Racer gone (happygone)
Race Number 70
Date Mon, 23 Jul 2012 9:35:14
Speed 42 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 86.3%
Rank 7th place (out of 9)
Opponents acwatch1 (3rd place) benzz (10th place) blah3 (6th place) chollawat2 (2nd place) cowx (8th place) jiyoyo (1st place) tangyproject (4th place) typeracerarm (5th place)

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The pathology of setting a deadline to the earliest articulable date essentially guarantees that the schedule will be missed. Even the strategy of picking the "most likely date" is not particularly safe, as the area to the left of the peak of the curve is barely a third. That says there is a two-thirds chance of missing the deadline.
— (book) by Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister (see stats)