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Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyboard. These competitions are somewhat underplayed in the conventional history. In fact, typing contests and demonstrations of speed were fairly common during this period. They involved many different machines, with various manufacturers claiming to hold the speed record.
Famous Fables of Economics, Chapter 4: Fable of the Keys (book) by Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis
Language: English
This text has been typed more than 1000 times:
Avg. speed: 83 WPM
Avg. accuracy: 96.6%

Top 10 scores for this text

User Speed Accuracy Points Place Date Options
1 joshua728 225 WPM 99.0% 172 1/2 Oct. 13, 2023
2 mythicalrocket 215 WPM 99.0% 165 1/4 March 25, 2023
3 arenasnow2 204 WPM 99.0% N/A 1/3 Aug. 21, 2012
4 arenasnow 201 WPM 99.0% 154 1/2 March 25, 2019
5 typos_z 199 WPM 99.0% 152 1/2 May 7, 2023
6 megaextremist 195 WPM 99.0% 149 1/3 Aug. 14, 2021
7 sahibprime 194 WPM 100.0% 149 1/2 Sept. 11, 2023
8 florentine 193 WPM 99.0% N/A 1/3 July 5, 2017
9 iamtyperacer 192 WPM 99.0% 147 1/5 April 13, 2021
10 flaneur 192 WPM 99.0% 147 1/4 April 16, 2023