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1 posted on 04/15/2018 1:34:03 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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My mother typed 120 WPM on a manual in the old days (second fastest in her high school ever).

At 45, she took up typing again to help my father with NASA proposals, after a 20 year layoff. I tested her at 90 WPM over 5 minutes without error.

She is also a classical pianist.

I am lousy myself.


72 posted on 04/15/2018 6:41:12 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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I learned typing as a child, using a manual typewriter. When I got good enough at it (parents’ determination of “good enough”) they let me use Dad’s IBM Selectric. THAT was an awesome machine; really made typing “fun”. Best keyboard ever; the keys were electrically powered and actually kicked back. Your hands kind of float over the keyboard if you use it right. DEC VT-100 terminal keyboards were almost as good; probably as good as you can get with spring action keys. Modern computer keyboards feel dead to me.


74 posted on 04/16/2018 12:34:53 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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