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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]
A river valley civilization is an agricultural nation or civilization situated beside and drawing sustenance from a river. A river gives the inhabitants a reliable source of water for drinking and agriculture. Some other possible benefits for the inhabitants are fishing, fertile soil due to annual flooding, and ease of transportation.
The world's first typist was Lillian Sholes from Wisconsin in the United States, [1] [2] the daughter of Christopher Latham Sholes, who invented the first practical typewriter. [1] User interface features such as spell checker and autocomplete serve to facilitate and speed up typing and to prevent or correct errors the typist may make.
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]
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 ...
65 to 75 for the Sudd section; the rest of the river is only 1 or 2 million years old [9] Thames: 58 North Sea: Late Palaeocene Period Thanetian Stage [10] Indus (Sindhu) 45 Arabian Sea: Source in the Himalayas and Karakoram Mountains [11] Tyne: 30 North Sea: The Tyne began to carve its valley 30 MYA, by removing softer chalk rocks and exposing ...
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. Actions ... In a speed typing contest contestants compete to attain the highest accurate typing speeds. [1] [2] [3 ...
Birdie Reeve Kay, born Birdie Reeve (January 16, 1907 [1] – May 31, 1996 [2]), was an American champion typist who performed in the 1920s in vaudeville. She reached speeds of over 200 words, or 800 letters, per minute, and was billed as the "World's Fastest Typist".