How fast do you type?

[VetLegion]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
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Windows 3.1?

[Provost Harrison]

More characters than Cybershy (longer words) with no mistakes thank you very much!

[Provost Harrison]

And this one beats the wpm

[Kontiki]

You guys would all make fantastic secretaries. Now how fast can you make coffee?

[Provost Harrison]

Pretty quick. Well, this is one of my hidden talents. To add to my other hidden talents. And my not-so-hidden ones

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by loinburger
Yeah, I don't get much benefit from being a fast typist at my job -- 1% of the time spent writing a research paper is actually spent typing, the rest of the time is spent daydreaming.

Same here, although it does have it's benefits. In terms of taking notes and minutes, why bother writing when you can type it several times faster - almost live in fact...

[-Jrabbit]

74.55 wpm
300 cpm
2 mistakes

I've slowed in my old age...

[loinburger]

Originally posted by Provost Harrison
Same here, although it does have it's benefits. In terms of taking notes and minutes, why bother writing when you can type it several times faster - almost live in fact...

Good point. Another advantage is that I can read what I've typed, but half the time I can't decipher my own handwriting the next day.

[mrmitchell]

3 mistakes
131 wpm
560 cpm

I always hit the space bar twice after the end of a sentence ("See Jane. See the dog eat Jane." as opposed to "See Jane. See the dog eat Jane."). Have I been doing it wrong all this time? It says it's a mistake.

At least I'm not in a typing job. That alone is probably just an easy bad habit to break.

[Sparrowhawk]

You are using the old school method (that they used to teach in schools before "kerning"). The old method was so that after a sentence you would have a recognizable space separating the two sentences (and thus two spaces) in computerized typing they now teach only one space after sentences as the period no longer takes a full space to type.

btw, kerning is the amount of space a letter takes....on an typewriter an "i" and a "m" take the same amount of space (as does a ".") on a computer the letters take the amount of space they require. I have worked with several "old school" people that refuse to only use one space after sentences.

/me

[Kontiki]

I'm a two spacer, and a strong proponent of it. Even if the period doesn't take a full space, it still makes for a better visual break between sentences to have two spaces.

[Ben Kenobi]

Best is 85.65 no errors. I go much more slowly when I have to correct the errors.

[asleepathewheel]

two spaces

one space

[-Jrabbit]

I've always been an old school, 2 spaces guy.

BUT THAT'S WRONG!!!

I'm writing for a living now and have been published in at least a dozen different magazines over the past year. In EVERY SINGLE CASE, their style guide specifies one space between sentences. this is also true for every corporate client that goes so far as to have a preference.

Get used to it, gang. One space between sentences is now the norm.

[Datajack Franit]

Originally posted by Kontiki
You guys would all make fantastic secretaries. Now how fast can you make coffee?

Secretaries are actually expected to go down on their knees