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  2. W. B. Yeats - Wikipedia

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    W. B. Yeats. William Butler Yeats[ a] (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist and writer, and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival, and along with Lady Gregory founded the Abbey Theatre, serving as its chief during its early years.

  3. Words per minute - Wikipedia

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    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 [ 9] measured the speed at ...

  4. Barbara Blackburn (typist) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. The Second Coming (poem) - Wikipedia

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    The poem was written in 1919 in the aftermath of the First World War [ 4] and the beginning of the Irish War of Independence in January 1919, which followed the Easter Rising in April 1916, and before the British government had decided to send in the Black and Tans to Ireland. Yeats used the phrase "the second birth" instead of "the Second ...

  6. W. B. Yeats bibliography - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of all works by Irish poet and dramatist W. B. (William Butler) Yeats(1865–1939), winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literatureand a major figure in 20th-century literature. Works sometimes appear twice if parts of new editions or significantly revised. Posthumous editions are also included if they are the first publication of a ...

  7. Speed reading - Wikipedia

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    This is the fastest process. Subvocalization readers (Mental readers) generally read at approximately 250 words per minute, auditory readers at approximately 450 words per minute and visual readers at approximately 700 words per minute. Proficient readers are able to read 280–350 wpm without compromising comprehension. [12]

  8. TypeRacer - Wikipedia

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    Registered wpm is how fast the website has calculated a player's speed average throughout the text. It is measured in a way that prevents cheaters from manually sending scores to the website, which means there is often lag that lowers a player's wpm count. The unlagged wpm is a player's actual speed.

  9. Ultimate Typing Championship - Wikipedia

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    History. 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.