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bethanial
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« Reply #15 on: February 03, 2001, 01:15:44 am » |
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I never took typing in high school (another thank you, Mavis Beacon), and I think I manage well enough for what I need. One of my friend's moms could get over 120 WPM on the old manual typewriters.
I have a thought -- since Liz is amazed at these high speeds, is it possible that a US WPM is different from a British WPM. Isn't it like 4-5 characters or something? (I skipped over that part when my mom tried to teach me to type.)
And a bit of trivia -- Did you know that the QWERTY keyboard is statistically one of the slowest to learn/type? When typewriters were first invented, the little gizmo's attached from the keys on the keyboard to the faceplates the letters were on were constantly getting jammed. This was with the keyboard done in alphabetical order. To solve this problem, the typewriter manufacturers decided they needed a keyboard that didn't have letters used commonly together in typing right beside each other. We now have the QWERTY everbody knows and loves. And it's since been proven to be one of the hardest arrangements to learn.
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