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  2. 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.

  3. John Moschitta Jr. - Wikipedia

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    Born in New York City to an Italian-American family, Moschitta had been credited by Guinness World Records as the World's Fastest Talker, [1] with the ability to articulate 586 words per minute. His record was broken in 1990 by Steve Woodmore, who spoke 637 words per minute [2] [3] and then by Sean Shannon, who spoke 655 words per minute on ...

  4. Words per minute - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Longest, fastest, zaniest: Guinness World Records ... - AOL

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    The Guinness World Record researchers get many more records approved than they can fit in a single book. There are visits to history — pirate ships and shipwrecks — and pages devoted to record ...

  6. Steve Woodmore - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Speed reading - Wikipedia

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    Visual reading: understanding the meaning of the word, rather than sounding or hearing. 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 ...

  8. Get Paid to Write: Top 18 Sites That Pay (up to $1 per Word)

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    The Inc. 5000 ranked The Penny Hoarder as the fastest-growing private media company in the U.S. in 2017. ... Pay: About 6 to 10 cents per word (writer); 1 to 2 cents per word (editor)

  9. Fran Capo - Wikipedia

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    She is listed in the Guinness World Records as the fastest-talking female, having broken the record twice. Capo set the current record on June 5, 1990 [3] at the Guinness Museum in Las Vegas, speaking at 603.32 wpm in 54.2 seconds. [4] She first broke the record speaking 585 words-per-minute (wpm) on Larry King Live on March 5, 1986. [4]