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Carpal Tunnel & Tool to Measure Typing Rate

[Anonymous Coward]

My hands are beginning to exhibit the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. I need to slow down my typing, but my immediate manager has expressed an expectation that my project be completed in a limited amount of time, thus requiring my typing rate to accelerate and thus aggravating my symptoms of carpal tunnel.

I have grown concerned about the typing rate and want to manage it in an objective way. Is there a software utility that can be run in the background that records peak and average rates of typing, measured in characters per second? The utility should be able to record the total number of typed characters and to be switched on and off (so that I can measure only the characters that I type for the project).

I am thinking of presenting the measurements to the manager (to prove that I am exceeding reasonable expectations of effort on the project) and to a physician. I am getting close to a point when I may need to see a physician. The symptoms are becoming worse by the day.