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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. Touch typing - Wikipedia

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    Touch type training can improve an individual's typing speed and accuracy dramatically. Speeds average around 30–40 WPM (words per minute), while a speed of 60–80 WPM is the approximate speed to keep up with one's thoughts.

  4. TypeRacer - Wikipedia

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    For racing, there is the default ("maintrack") option, where players race against each other by typing randomly selected quotes from a database. [5] [6] Practice racing, or "ghosting", is the game's single-player option where players can type any text on demand, and save up to ten races per day. [7]

  5. Tux Typing - Wikipedia

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    Tux Typing is a free and open source typing tutor created especially for children. [1] It features several different types of game play, with a variety of difficulty levels. [ 2 ] It is designed to be fun and to improve words per minute speed of typists.

  6. 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]

  7. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing - Wikipedia

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    Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Released in late 1987 by The Software Toolworks, the program aimed to enhance users' typing skills through a series of interactive lessons and games. Mavis Beacon is an entirely fictional character, created for marketing purposes.

  8. Typing game - Wikipedia

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    The 2016 typing game Epistory, showing creatures with words above them: the player must type the words to attack the creatures. In 2000, The Typing of the Dead became known as the "ultimate typing game parody", adapting The House of the Dead 2 to replace the gun with a computer keyboard so that the player must type to defeat zombies.

  9. Stenotype - Wikipedia

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    A steno machine, stenotype machine, shorthand machine, stenograph or steno writer is a specialized chorded keyboard or typewriter used by stenographers for shorthand use. In order to pass the United States Registered Professional Reporter test, a trained court reporter or closed captioner must write speeds of approximately 180, 200, and 225 words per minute (wpm) at very high accuracy in the ...