What's Your Top Typing Speed? (or "How I Wrote A Book In High School")
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I don't know why, but I like asking this question. You can tell a lot about someone in many cases based on how fast they can type.
This could also get into the questions "How did you learn? When did you start?"
Well, as for myself, I began typing properly in the 7th grade, which would put it at around 25 years ago. They were computers that time, but when I did it again in the 11th grade, they had us on typewriters for some reason. Either way, I owned it that time because by then, I was in the middle of writing a book.
You see, I wasn't a very good student - academically, not socially. I didn't cause problems at school or anything. I wasn't a bully, nor did I get bullied, and things like sports and student counsel didn't interest me in the slightest. But I was horrible at completing homework, finishing projects, studying topics that didn't grab my interest whatsoever. I failed a lot of classes for this reason. It's not that I didn't get it. I got it just fine, it just bored me to death; it put me to sleep.
But, when I was in the 10th grade, I got a Brother word processor for Christmas.
Not a computer. A word processor.
Specifically, this thing:
And I LOVED it. I did so much on this thing for the 3 years I had it before replacing it. Mostly, though, I wrote a daily journal (which I think is the root I'm going back to when I write here these days), and I wrote a book.
Yep, 15 years old. Started writing a book. Took me over 2 years to complete, about 2 months before graduation.
Man, what a feeling of accomplishment. I spent 2+ years spending every emotion I have on that book.
Excitement, determination, anticipation, anxiety, boredom, neglect, guilt, and of course, the dreaded writer's block.
I'll keep this short, but the story was about a group of friends that grew up and went to a school in a really bad part of a large city. Dealt with gangs, drugs, metal detectors at the schools, etc. A lot of my inspiration came from movies like "Lean On Me" with Morgan Freeman and "The Principal" with John Belushi, both from the 80's. It was totally spur of the moment to even begin writing it, and it suddenly came to have a life of its own. I tried doing a 2nd draft to fix some things I knew needed it, but then graduation came, then summer, then I tried going to college, got a job, etc etc etc, and it never happened. Never published it or anything.
BUT ANYWAY...
That word processor is what gave me the typing skills I have today. I can't stand internet shortspeak, aside from the usuals, like "lol" or "brb". Those are just convenient. But the nearly speaking fully in that shortspeak is enough to drive me up a tree. I even have to have capitalization and spelling as correct as I can.
That's because of that Brother word processor.
This thing had a beep that would go off while you were typing if something was incorrect. Not like the red underline you get these days. This was nearly an evil alarm clock ::BEEP:: that would rattle your eardrum every time it went off. It was like electric shock therapy for learning how to type correctly, or maybe the game "Operation".
So now I have a kind of rigid method of typing, but it's efficient I suppose. On a nice warm day, I can cap out at about 80+ wpm. Temperature drops, suddenly I have the rusty hands of the tin man and no oil.
On a sidenote, have you ever argued with a friend in chat or messenger who can type that fast? GOOD GOD. Even if you're as fast as they are, what a pain in the ass it is to get a word in edgewise, right? It's like you're trying to be the 9th caller!
Wow, okay, this was supposed to be a short post, but it grew a life of its own and took over.
Huh...that's how my book got started.
So, back to my original question:
How fast can you type?
If you need to find out real quick, you can check your typing speed at http://typingtest.com.
High school you sounds a lot like high school me.
There was no muss, no fuss. Wasn't excited about much, didn't expect much.
On the topic of typing, I started using computers at 7, but was a very slow typist till I started to program and write documentation around age 16. Now I believe I can reach about 40 wpm typing in the dark
I'm probably around 60 wpm. I learned in high school on a word processor.
to be honest I never looked at this figure ahahaha but I never had a secretary as typing myself everything :-)
Took one course in high school on an old style typewriter. Should practice with this link you gave. :)
Hmmmmnnn. You started writing at age 15, little wonder that you will receive write so well. The highest I have attained typing without distraction is 50+ wpm, I ain't a typist and I'm just a baby-writer,so my need for typing have been really simple till now. Great piece
I learned typing a typewriter and I jut did the test scoring in the high end of average.
I can type faster than I can think sometimes. Like just now, I said all that, then didn't know what to say so now I'm saying this, and even that happened quite quickly.
I learned in the mid to late 80's using Apple II typing games. That was computer class, for the most part.
I got really fast in the mid 90's when I was finally old enough to act like a troll in chat rooms.
These days I could probably do 70 wpm but I haven't tested that in awhile.
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I think I can muster up about ten maybe twelve once I get a rhythm going. My problem is I only have one finger, well, I have eight fingers and two thumbs, but at a key board they all become thumbs. Not only that but my keyboard has been taken over by gremlins that keep moving the letters around or they hide them. My one intelligent typing finger can't spell worth crap nor will it stay in sync with my eyes, my back up key has lost its arrow, so it doesn't know wether it's coming or going.
I actually started this comment yesterday, well, it seems like it was. I type so slow I can't go in a chat room, if I do it has to be pp. even then the other person is in and out carrying on with six other people.
Sadly, I'm not yanking your chain, it's for real. But I keep trying, and waiting for voice typing. Crap, I even have trouble with the ATM things..........Upvoted. Have a great day!