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  2. Words per minute - Wikipedia

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    Words per minute is a common metric for assessing reading speed and is often used in the context of remedial skills evaluation, as well as in the context of speed reading, where it is a controversial measure of reading performance. A word in this context is the same as in the context of speech. Research done in 2012 [11] measured the speed at ...

  3. Typing - Wikipedia

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    Some notable, verified records include 255 wpm on a one-minute, random-word test by a user under the username slekap and occasionally bailey, [19] 213 wpm on a 1-hour, random-word test by Joshua Hu, [20] 221 wpm average on 10 random quotes by Joshua Hu, [21] and first place in the 2020 Ultimate Typing Championship by Anthony Ermollin based on ...

  4. Barbara Blackburn (typist) - Wikipedia

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    The Guinness Book of World Records included her speed records amongst others in the "Typing, Fastest" category of the 1976 [5] –1986 [6] editions, where she was listed as able to "attain a speed of 170 wpm" and "maintain 145 wpm for 55 minutes". [3] Guinness's typing speed records for electronic and computer keyboards, including Blackburn's ...

  5. Touch typing - Wikipedia

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    Touch type training can improve an individual's typing speed and accuracy dramatically. Speeds average around 30–40 WPM (words per minute), while a speed of 60–80 WPM is the approximate speed to keep up with one's thoughts.

  6. TypeRacer - Wikipedia

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    Registration. Free. Launched. March 2008. Current status. Online. TypeRacer is a multiplayer online browser-based typing game. In TypeRacer, players complete typing tests of various texts as fast as possible, competing against themselves or with other users online. It was launched in March 2008.

  7. Speed typing contest - Wikipedia

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    These contests have been common in North America since the 1930s and were used to test the relative efficiency of typing with the Dvorak and QWERTY keyboard layouts. In popular culture. The 2012 French romantic comedy-drama film Populaire shows the relationship between a speed typist and her trainer. [citation needed]

  8. Tux Typing - Wikipedia

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    Tux Typing is a free and open source typing tutor created especially for children. [1] It features several different types of game play, with a variety of difficulty levels. [2] It is designed to be fun and to improve words per minute speed of typists. It is written in the C programming language and is available in the repositories of some ...

  9. Shorthand - Wikipedia

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    Shorthand is an abbreviated symbolic writing method that increases speed and brevity of writing as compared to longhand, a more common method of writing a language. The process of writing in shorthand is called stenography, from the Greek stenos (narrow) and graphein (to write). It has also been called brachygraphy, from Greek brachys (short ...