Unless you're a nerd like me who memorised the US states by remembering how many there are by initial letter (4 As, 3 Cs, D, F, G, H, 4 Is, 2 Ks, L, 8 Ms, 8 Ns, 3 Os, P, R, 2 Ss, 2 Ts, U, 2 Vs, 4Ws).
Yes, I've done exactly the same. Only way I could learn them as a non-American and I'd struggle to list them in anything other than alphabetical order. But I still don't know where half of them are!
Got it on my first try with one second spare. I couldn't figure out the last letter and I had made one mistake already, I literally typed any letter on the keyboard as if i waited any longer I'd fail anyway and I was lucky.
I feel like using letters not used by the English language should neither count nor be a whammy... :D Unforunately, tried that as my second whammy and ended early.
Then it's really easy.
i got it with 41 seconds left by going through the alphabet
s
c
r
o
l
l
d
o
w
n
i cheated.