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TypeRacer is a multiplayer online browser-based typing game. In TypeRacer, players complete typing tests of various texts as fast as possible, competing against themselves or with other users online. It was launched in March 2008.
Improve your typing speed: Practice regularly to increase your typing speed and accuracy, ... you’ll provide fast and accurate transcription services of audio and video files. You’ll get paid ...
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] Tangora wrote a booklet about typing, called "Fifty Common Typing Faults and How To Avoid Them." [45]
Kewala's Typing Adventure [a] is a 1996 Australian educational typing-themed video game, featuring a koala protagonist named Kewala. It was developed by Sydney -based software company Typequick , and localised by Japan Data Pacific for the Japanese market.
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.
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]
Teeline shorthand is a streamlined way to transcribe the spoken word quickly by removing unnecessary letters from words and making the letters themselves faster to write. [2] Vowels are often removed when they are not the first or last letter of a word, and silent letters are also ignored. [2]
Mario Teaches Typing was conceived and developed by Brian Fargo, at the time head of developer Interplay Entertainment and future founder of inXile Entertainment and Robot Cache. Fargo was acquaintances with Les Crane, a talk show host and radio announcer, who had also developed the educational typing game Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. The game ...