How i do that
I type 79 words per minute. With 100% accuracy. Can’t figure out why I have so many typos on the blog though. How about you?
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August 27th, 2009 at 11:49 am
I also have no idea why there are typos on this blog.
August 27th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
I learned to type in summer school in 1969 and 1970. Somebody stole my bicycle and I had to walk two miles to the school.
The computer keyboard is not the typewriter keyboard I learned on. There’s more to it than QWERTY. What are the F keys for, anyway?
Welcome to not being over seventeen.
August 27th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Err, *being over seventeen*.
August 27th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
I’m over 17, and I know what the F keys do. I think you mean “welcome to being over 40.” 😛
August 27th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
I type 79 words per minute.
That’s like 18 posts!
August 27th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
Just took the test. 82 words per minute with one error, which was typing “me” instead of “my” because I misread it.
This is a bit faster than when I learned typing in high school. I could do 60 words per minute without any errors then.
August 27th, 2009 at 1:08 pm
As for what the F keys do (I guess I should have included this with my first post):
The “F” stands for “function.” Specifically what function they perform depends on the application and what OS you’re running. For instance, in most Windows applications, hitting F1 will usually bring up the help dialog, hitting Alt+F4 will usually exit the application your usually using, etc.
August 27th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
All you need is someone else to develop the content while you just transcribe it into the blog. Then, low error efficiency! Trying to think and type at the same time is what causes the problem.
I’m fair certain that they will discover that our fingers have one of those word completion programs that so plague cell phones with the wrong words.
August 27th, 2009 at 1:18 pm
34wpm. My keyboard doesn’t have f-keys, it has pictures.
August 27th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
I must type like I shoot. 4-wrong, that means the bystanders took a couple.
August 27th, 2009 at 1:47 pm
43 wpm with two fingers and a thumb. And I write code for a living. go figure. 🙂
August 27th, 2009 at 2:26 pm
49 WPM, 5 mistakes. Cool test.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
The Stonecutter conspiracy has code inserted into all of the major browsers to automagically misspell simple words, and make annoying you-your and there-their substitutions at random, just after you hit “submit”.
August 27th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
So that post took you about 15 seconds?
August 27th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
43 WPM w/3 mistakes, which is a little slower with (I think) two more mistakes than when I tested for an office admin temp position after retiring from the Army during Bill Clinton’s recession.
Considering that I also use the “two finger, two thumbs” method, not bad. In the Army I tested at (IIRC) 25 WPM w/no errors, on an IBM Selectric; 25 WPM was the passing score, and when I reached that point in the test text, I stopped; others kept going. One woman in the group had the “blank key” model, and scored something obscene like 85+. Me, I need to be able to see the keyboard, even though I can more-or-less type blind. (With a familiar keyboard, that is; one problem with computer keyboards is the way manufacturers are always playing with design in the name of ergonomics, resulting in some that I can barely type on even by hunt-and-peck…)
August 27th, 2009 at 3:17 pm
75 wpm, no errors. On a laptop while lying flat on my back in a hammock with a cat on my chest. Do I get extra points for the cat?
August 27th, 2009 at 3:33 pm
82 word per minute with 3 wrong words. But I was typing faster than I typically do. So I guess 82 WPM is my sprinting speed. Not sprinting I was 76 WPM with no errors.
August 27th, 2009 at 4:31 pm
65 WPM with no errors. Again, ‘2 fingers and a thumb’ method.
August 27th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
97 words with 4 mistakes! Woo!
August 27th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Last job interview I had, I told them I could type 70 WMP.
Homeboy rightchere just got 98 with 1 mistake. My tendons might curl up like cooked bacon at any minute, but it’s a small price for greatness.
August 27th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
My wife used to type 100 wpm with 97% accuracy. Of course I pointed out that means she makes three mistakes every minute. She isn’t real impressed with my analytical skills.
Me, I type about 24 words per minute with 4 stubby fingers and a thumb in play. I’m fairly accurate though as I type slow enough to catch them while I go.
August 27th, 2009 at 11:30 pm
Hey, stamps used to be two cents, and I know what the pedals on a Model T do. Get off my lawn. Having said that, “keyboard technique” and “typing” are as different as playing organ and piano. Though the Selectric somewhat bridges the gap, fast and accurate typing on a machine with swinging arms inside, even when motor-driven, required a rhythm and regularity of attack that is not needed on computer keyboards. I assume most of us have “click” turned off, or do not have the option; during the [very long] changeover period, trained typists needed to hear an imitation of the keys going home to keep their coordination.
In 1967, a junior high school typing class required five minutes at 70 WPM with two errors per minute to get an “A” grade. But keep in mind that typing teachers also taught letter and business-form formatting and some grammar (forms of address, recognizing sentence fragments, uses of punctuation symbols, numbering/bulleting, etc.). Now that the computer does that for us, we accept its errors in the same way we accept SpelChek’s spelling errors.
Most typists were not secretaries, but they were all proofreaders, and many were editors as well. When executives were compelled to compose their own correspondence and “express themselves,” a skilled trade vanished, and the world became a more brutal place.
I haven’t taken O/N 790 for over thirty years, but I’m still pretty good. Never mind me, though. My father was taught typing as a company clerk at Camp Maxie. In late 1944, his HQ was overrun by the very inconsiderate VI Panzerarmee, and he had to re-type every soldier’s personnel file. A day or two after he finished, his unit re-captured the files. He can still maintain 35 WPM on an Underwood 9, with two fingers and two thumbs, the Army way. He’s 87. It hurts, but he can do it.
August 28th, 2009 at 3:27 am
“You type 458 characters per minute
You have 81 correct words and
you have 6 wrong words”
I live like I type, fast with a lot of mistakes ^_^