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Menolly wrote:
Avatar wrote:What amuses me is the fact that even with a keyboard specially designed to make the typist go slowly, there are people who can type up to 120 words per minute. Human adaptivity is amazing.
*nodding*

My mom was a steno girl as she worked for her education degree. Her speed was about that, and stayed at that throughout her life...

...on a lightweight, portable manual, non-electric typewriter.

And somehow, the keys never jammed on her...
It's scary to think how fast she would have been on today's keyboards...

120 wpm is way beyond my skill level, but I could probably sustain 40 wpm without too many errors. Of course, once you throw the number row in, I slow to a crawl. I hate that row. Never got the hang of it.
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matrixman wrote: 120 wpm is way beyond my skill level, but I could probably sustain 40 wpm without too many errors. Of course, once you throw the number row in, I slow to a crawl. I hate that row. Never got the hang of it.
Funny...I got really fast typing in my first MOS in the Army...teletype was one of my things (damn...I don't think they even USE teletype anymore...or morse code which I also had to learn...I can STILL decipher it in movies faster than they tell you what it says)...anyway..fast and accurate...but it didn't even HAVE a numbers row [or shift for caps..it was all caps]...so much for real typing skill.
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i can hunt & peck with the best of them :)

i am actually a bit faster thean that - but i have to look at the keyboard.
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