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Registration. Free. Launched. March 2008. Current status. Online. 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.
Given a 5-minute time slot, participants can have unlimited 1-minute time trials keeping their best result. The winner of the 2011 tournament was Shaun Low Foo Shern, with a speed of 146 words per minute. In films. The 2012 French romantic comedy-drama film Populaire shows the relationship between a speed typist and her trainer. See also
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 ...
TextTwist. All-star classic word games abound - TextTwist is the grandfather of them all! In TextTwist you get a set of letters and have to make as many words as you can with the letters provided ...
During World War II, according to Blackburn, she was timed by a "Navy girl" to type at 138 wpm on a Royal Standard typewriter with Dvorak keyboard. In 1955 she reported typing 150 wpm. In 1972, Technical Communication reported her typing speed at 150–160 wpm using the Dvorak layout.
Albert Tangora. 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. On October 22, 1923, Tangora set the 60-minute typing speed ...
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.
The fastest typing speed ever, 216 words per minute, was achieved by Stella Pajunas-Garnand from Chicago in 1946 in one minute on an IBM electric using the QWERTY keyboard layout. [16] [17] As of 2005 [update] , writer Barbara Blackburn was the fastest English language typist in the world, according to The Guinness Book of World Records .