Thread: Your typing/keyboarding style

Just as I thought 0 wpm at warp speed

Originally Posted by Lista

ok...just because I AM that nerdy I found this site where you can figure out your typing speed, and you can also compete against others. I discovered that I can only type 79 wpm....some of those people on the site can FLY!

http://play.typeracer.com/

LOL...in high school I got a typing award, don't remember my top speeds but seems I'm a little rusty. I got:

Your speed: 63 wpm
Time:	0:37
Accuracy:	97%

Originally Posted by Nikos

212 words per minute - Barbara Blackburn is the fastest English typist in the world, according the Guinness Book of World Records. She managed to type at 150 words a minute for 50 minutes, and peaked at 212 words a minute. She even showed off her talents on 'The David Letterman Show' in 1985. She died in 2008.Photo by Eduardo Parra/Getty Images

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sns-vi...018-photo.html

good grief....that's the kind of stuff that would have been on "That's Incredible" back in the day.

After getting used to it I got 74 with 98% for a text I hadn't tried before. The interface is a bit awkward though. I have typed a bit faster than that here at times, probably close to 100. My comfort speed is probably 50-60.

Originally Posted by Lista

good grief....that's the kind of stuff that would have been on "That's Incredible" back in the day.

Originally Posted by fuego

Well that didn't prove nuthin!


But this could explain it:

What is the secret as to how Barbara Blackburn could type so fast? The key, so to speak, is in the keyboard design. Blackburn would type on nothing but the Dvorak keyboard, which has vowels on one side and consonants on the other, with the most frequently used letters on the center row. "It makes much more sense than the standard, so-called Qwerty keyboard (named after the first five letters on the top row)," Blackburn said. In fact, it was the Qwerty keyboard that was her undoing in high school typing class back in Pleasant Hill, Missouri...

http://rcranger.mysite.syr.edu/dvorak/blackburn.htm

Originally Posted by krystian

Well that didn't prove nuthin!


But this could explain it:

What is the secret as to how Barbara Blackburn could type so fast? The key, so to speak, is in the keyboard design. Blackburn would type on nothing but the Dvorak keyboard, which has vowels on one side and consonants on the other, with the most frequently used letters on the center row. "It makes much more sense than the standard, so-called Qwerty keyboard (named after the first five letters on the top row)," Blackburn said. In fact, it was the Qwerty keyboard that was her undoing in high school typing class back in Pleasant Hill, Missouri...

http://rcranger.mysite.syr.edu/dvorak/blackburn.htm

That makes more sense.

Originally Posted by Lista

That makes more sense.

Yeah it does cause in the video Fuego posted she blew it both times.

I do touch typing. Not sure about my speed, as I type sporadically rather than
continuously.

The most useful class I took in high school was typing.