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Ask Slashdot: Typing Advice For a Guinness World Record Attempt?
An anonymous reader writes "In fifth grade, I amazed my fellow classmates when I demonstrated what 132 words per minute looked like. Recently, an acquaintance of mine saw me typing out a word document for graduate school and was impressed by my typing abilities. He suggested that I seriously contemplate attempting a Guinness World Record with such abilities. At the moment, I can manage an average of about 155-160 words per minute, with bursts around 180-185 words per minute (in the typing world, five characters defines a word, in case you were wondering). That aside, I have a few questions to pose to Slashdot readers (whom I am sure have been typing much longer than I have): What are some tips to fully maximize one's ability to type at the fastest possible rate? Do you have any specific keyboard recommendations that will improve my speed? Has anybody here ever competed in a typing event or thought about going for the world record? Is it worth learning Dvorak for the sole purpose of attempting such a record? How difficult would it be to improve my typing abilities from where they are now to where they need to be to acquire such a record?"
In the editing world, editors edit documents in the editing world in case you were wondering.
Cotnact me if your gonig for teh recrod. I am a nexpret in tiipyng and can gvie you ltos of usfeul tips .
My first program:
Hell Segmentation fault
PS2 VS USB?
what one can handle faster input?
Like I tell my wife, "I may not be good, but at least I'm fast!"
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
"(in the typing world, five characters defines a word in the typing world, in case you were wondering)."
If you are in the typing world,
and you want to communicate
something in the typing wold,
and you can avoid repeating
items in the typing world,
you would have less time spent
typing about things in the typing world,
and then you would go through documents
really fast as you type then in the typing world.
GO SPEED RACER, GO!
Same here. Also many of my IM messages end with ":wq"
It might be redundant but he/she typed the sentence really fast.
Do you end every sentence with a semi-colon?
Yes, but if you read it really fast you don' t notice the redundancy. Think of it as ECC or parity.
Why is there an "insightful" mod and why isn't it "-1"? If I wanted insight, I wouldn't be reading
Then learn how to speed talk and use voice to text. You'll never type as fast as that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute#Speech_and_listening
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