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Instrument (s) Guitar, vocals. Years active. Late 1960s–2013. Labels. Delmark, Storyville, Earwig Music. James Henry “Jimmy” Dawkins (October 24, 1936 – April 10, 2013) was an American Chicago blues and electric blues guitarist and singer. [1] He is generally considered to have been a practitioner of the "West Side sound" of Chicago ...
Competitive typist Albert Tangora demonstrating his typing in 1938. finger typing (also called blind typing, or touch keyboarding) is a style of typing.Although the phrase refers to typing without using the sense of sight to find the keys—specifically, a touch typist will know their location on the keyboard through muscle memory—the term is often used to refer to a specific form of touch ...
Words per minute is a common metric for assessing reading speed and is often used in the context of remedial skills evaluation, as well as in the context of speed reading, where it is a controversial measure of reading performance. A word in this context is the same as in the context of speech. Research done in 2012 [11] measured the speed at ...
Typing is the process of writing or inputting text by pressing keys on a typewriter, computer keyboard, mobile phone, or calculator. It can be distinguished from other means of text input, such as handwriting and speech recognition. Text can be in the form of letters, numbers and other symbols. The world's first typist was Lillian Sholes from ...
Box office. $714.6 million [ 4 ][ 5 ] Fast X (also known as Fast & Furious 10) is a 2023 American action film directed by Louis Leterrier from a screenplay written by Dan Mazeau and Justin Lin, both of whom also co-wrote the story with Zach Dean. It is the sequel to F9 (2021), the tenth main installment, and the eleventh installment overall in ...
Finger-counting, also known as dactylonomy, is the act of counting using one's fingers. There are multiple different systems used across time and between cultures, though many of these have seen a decline in use because of the spread of Arabic numerals. Finger-counting can serve as a form of manual communication, particularly in marketplace ...
Died. April 18, 2008. (2008-04-18) (aged 87) Known for. being the "world's fastest typist" according to the Guinness Book of World Records (later removed) Barbara Clay Henley Blackburn (September 25, 1920 – April 18, 2008) [1][2] was an American clerical worker [3] recognized for her claimed fast typing speed using the Dvorak keyboard layout. [4]
Each fry was rated on a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being the lowest and 10 the highest. Some were immediate hits, and others caused some debate, but after some good-natured debate we were able to ...