In high school I was always the SECOND fastest typist.  I was SOO jealous of the one girl who was always faster than me.  She, I know, did over 100wpm, I could do about 95.  This was in about 1980, when our school had manual typewriters.  However -- we were were all in awe of our teacher - a man - who consistently typed accurately at over 130wpm.  He was absolutely amazing!  He had been teaching typing for eons...