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Just as I thought 0 wpm at warp speed
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flower planter
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% |
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Resident Chocolate Monster
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.
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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.
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Originally Posted by
Lista
good grief....that's the kind of stuff that would have been on "That's Incredible" back in the day.
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flower planter
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
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Resident Chocolate Monster
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.
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flower planter
Originally Posted by
Lista
That makes more sense.
Yeah it does cause in the video Fuego posted she blew it both times.
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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.
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