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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.
Some notable [citation needed], records include 255 wpm on a one-minute, random-word test by a user under the username slekap and occasionally bailey, [20] 213 wpm on a 1-hour, random-word test by Joshua Hu, [21] 221 wpm average on 10 random quotes by Joshua Hu, [22] and first place in the 2020 Ultimate Typing Championship by Anthony Ermollin ...
Audiobooks are recommended to be 150–160 words per minute, which is the range that people comfortably hear and vocalize words. [16] Slide presentations tend to be closer to 100–125 wpm for a comfortable pace, [17] auctioneers can speak at about 250 wpm, [18] and the fastest speaking policy debaters speak from 350 [19] to over 500 words per ...
Its back to school time and that means time to get your kids typing and word game skills sharpened up. (Or your own for that matter!) We've collected the best free typing games from Games.com and ...
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.
In preparation for competing in speed typing competitions, he would dip his fingers in mixed talcum powder and alum. [41] 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]
Competitive typist Albert Tangora demonstrating his typing in 1938. Touch 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 ...
The audio typist will have learnt to touch type at a high speed which means they can look at the monitor or keep an eye on a waiting area as they are typing because they do not need to look at the keyboard. A specialist player called a micro cassette transcriber (below) is used for playback of the cassettes to maximise the typing speed.