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The world of typing has changed. In the 1970s, every business had rooms full of secretaries whose job it was to type letters that had been hand-written. They were copying the writing into a more readable format. In the early 1980s, the personal computer became a common office machine.
— Keyboarding Made Simple (1985)
(book)
by Leigh E. Zeitz, Ph.D.
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Language: | English |
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Avg. speed: | 76 WPM |
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Avg. accuracy: | 96.7% |
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1 | joshua728 | 210 WPM | 99.0% | 171 | 1/2 | Sept. 24, 2023 | |
2 | arenasnow2 | 206 WPM | 99.0% | N/A | 1/3 | July 25, 2016 | |
3 | mythicalrocket | 206 WPM | 100.0% | 168 | 1/5 | Oct. 17, 2022 | |
4 | arenasnow | 204 WPM | 100.0% | 167 | 1/2 | March 27, 2019 | |
5 | typos_z | 199 WPM | 100.0% | 162 | 1/2 | Aug. 22, 2023 | |
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9 | deroche1 | 188 WPM | 100.0% | 154 | 1/2 | Dec. 10, 2020 | |
10 | chakk | 188 WPM | 99.0% | 153 | 1/5 | Oct. 1, 2018 |