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  2. Typing - Wikipedia

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    From the 1920s through the 1970s, typing speed (along with shorthand speed) was an important secretarial qualification and typing contests were popular and often publicized by typewriter companies as promotional tools. A less common measure of the speed of a typist, CPM is used to identify the number of characters typed per minute.

  3. Words per minute - Wikipedia

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    As of 2019, the average typing speed on a mobile phone was 36.2 wpm with 2.3% uncorrected errors—there were significant correlations with age, level of English proficiency, and number of fingers used to type. [3] Some typists have sustained speeds over 200 wpm for a 15-second typing test with simple English words. [4]

  4. Barbara Blackburn (typist) - Wikipedia

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    Blackburn's self-claimed peak speed, in 1986, was 212 words per minute. [8] [a] Blackburn was popularly recognized as the "world's fastest typist" [9] [10] and made media appearances to exhibit her typing speed and the Dvorak layout, notably appearing in a 1985 episode of Late Night with David Letterman [9] and in a television commercial for ...

  5. Albert Tangora - Wikipedia

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    In preparation for competing in speed typing competitions, he would dip his fingers in mixed talcum powder and alum. [41] The following year, he used a Royal typewriter to set the International Commercial Schools Association typing record with a typing speed of 141 WPM. [42] [43] He later beat his own record with a typing speed of 142 WPM. [44]

  6. Speed typing contest - Wikipedia

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    Dutch National Championship in 1954. In a speed typing contest contestants compete to attain the highest accurate typing speeds. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] These contests ...

  7. Talk:Words per minute - Wikipedia

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    Surely there are other equally (non)-noteworthy typing contests held all the time. There is a fairly recent (2005) Guiness World Record for typing speed mentioned, which I'm inclined to treat as the most credible typing speed record in the absence of any ongoing organized typing competitions.Plantdrew 03:33, 30 October 2012 (UTC)

  8. Lenore Fenton MacClain - Wikipedia

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    In 1937 MacClain won a novice typing award with a speed of 87 words per minute. [2] [4] She won again in 1938, [5] and in 1939 she broke her own transcription record and earned the title of "the world's greatest secretary". [6]

  9. Typewriter - Wikipedia

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    Stenographers and telegraphers could take down information at rates up to 130 words per minute, whereas a writer with a pen was limited to a maximum of 30 words per minute (the 1853 speed record). [17] From 1829 to 1870, many printing or typing machines were patented by inventors in Europe and America, but none went into commercial production. [18]