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Racer Kelvin Jay (kelvinjay)
Race Number 1427
Date Fri, 9 Nov 2012 12:39:44
Speed 66 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 87.9%
Rank 3rd place (out of 5)
Opponents arpasusi (4th place) pretzell (2nd place) uneas (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)