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That was copying something down though. It I am typing something straight off the top of my head then I can probably type twice that because my eyesight sucks :)
Thats with my right arm in a cast below the elbow though....
Sorry, couldn't resist.
but I can type a lot more than 58 w's
now now Sinner, is that any way for someone with an IQ of 154 to behave?
thats the one i did
But I stopped in the middle to eat a spoonful of Grape Nuts. ;)
(I used to do a lot of tape transcription for a marketing research company ... with typos I can transcribe at about 85% of the speed of the spoken word ... without typos, 75%.)
You should insure your fingers.
Actually, that might not be a bad idea - just think of the payout the next time someone knocks you off your Hawk....
Chris
Most I've typed in one sitting in a long time!
With my feet.
The keyboard is actually designed to slow people down. It was made back in the typewriter days. On early typewriters people would type so fast that the little metal things would get jammed. So some guy came up with the QWERTY keyboard to slow down typers a little bit so the metal things (i dunno what the medal rods with the letters on them are actually called) would not get jammed as often.
Can anyone else think of anything that is QWERTY? that is, something that is very inefficant, but people still use it simply because they are used to it.
now now Sinner, is that any way for someone with an IQ of 154 to behave?
If Einstein can have a pic taken with him making faces...
I used to be in the 90s - I'll have to retake after I've had my highly caffeinated latte ;)
Jen
can't think of anything else that's qwerty, but alike keyboards not being abcdef alphabetical, consider the layout differences of the numeric pad on a keyboard versus a calculator or a touch-tone phone.
on a keyboard
789
456
123
0
versus
123
456
789
*0#
Why was the numbering layout made "different", rather than the same? Data entry people have always hated the difference.
My fingers just wouldn't move, I'll so this again later once they've warmed up
j
I switched to dvorak over a year ago, and love it! It takes a little bit of time for me to switch gears back to qwerty, but its not a big deal. It took about a week to learn where all the keys were, and about two months to become proficient. Dvorak is much more finger-efficient than qwerty, and my fingers don't trip over each other nearly as much. (Which is how typing qwerty feels to me now.)
Not bad for a college dropout :)
I was the only male in my high school typing class for three years. I had a crush on my typing teacher and I was also the teachers pet! ;)
That was fun, haven't done a typing test in ages, thanks for the resource!
Gross Words Per Minute (GWPM): 136
Net Words Per Minute (NWPM): 136
Hehehe, cut and paste.
Anyone here that's typing in chinese? Although I know some chinese I don't use it at the computer. Would be interesting to see if it's faster to type in chinese than in abc, or other languages that don't use abc.
