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The Ultimate Typing Championship was created in order to promote typing and find the fastest typists in the United States of America. Players compete against each other in typing races. Typing races are done in real time online via an online typing race application. Finalists compete in person at SXSW in Austin, Texas.
Blackburn starred in a commercial for the Apple IIc, released in 1984, which offered a switchable Dvorak–QWERTY keyboard. [16] [10] [17] In the commercial, captioned as the "World's Fastest Typist", she explains how she achieved the Guinness World Record for fastest typist at barely 150 words a minute, yet she was able to type nearly 200 wpm on an Apple computer.
Albert Tangora (July 2, 1903 – April 7, 1978) was an American competitive typist who was widely regarded as having the fastest typing speed on a typewriter. [2] Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Tangora began typing in 1916, entering typing contests the following year.
The 2012 French romantic comedy-drama film Populaire shows the relationship between a speed typist and her trainer. [citation needed] See also
MacClain was listed in the 1971 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records for being the fastest typist in a one-hour timed test. [9] She became one of the students of August Dvorak and upon switching from a QWERTY layout to the Dvorak keyboard layout, MacClain increased her typing rate from 70 words per minute to 182 words per minute.
On the ITV television show Motor Mouth on 22 September 1990, Steve Woodmore recited a piece from the Tom Clancy novel "Patriot Games" in 56 seconds, yielding an average rate of 637 words per minute, breaking the previous record of 586 wpm, set by John Moschitta Jr. [4] [9] Guinness World Records listed Woodmore as the world's fastest talker.
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".
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.