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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.
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.
Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Tangora began typing in 1916, entering typing contests the following year. On October 22, 1923, Tangora set the 60-minute typing speed world record at 147 words per minute (WPM). After a rest period, he typed 159 words in a one-minute "sprint". The typewriter he used was a QWERTY keyboard Underwood Standard.
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 ...
Populaire is a 2012 French romantic comedy-drama film directed and co-written by Régis Roinsard. Populaire was released in France on 28 November 2012. The film's title is taken from the name of the typewriter (Japy Populaire) used in the film.
In a speed typing contest ... These contests have been common in North America since the 1930s and were used to test the relative efficiency of typing with ...
The first round consisted of a standard 574-word text in which Wrona defeated Bowen 163-110 wpm, setting an unofficial world record. The second round consisted of a more difficult text involving the majority of the keys on the QWERTY keyboard, in which Wrona defeated Bowen 124-79 wpm to win the Ultimate Typing Championship and a $2,000 first ...
Ashrita Furman (born Keith Furman, September 16, 1954) is a Guinness World Records record-breaker. As of 2017, Furman has set more than 600 official Guinness Records and currently holds over 200 records, thus holding the Guinness world record for the most Guinness world records. [1] [2] He has been breaking records since 1979. [1] [3]