Typing

[fatboyjim]

Hi,

Does anybody know of any good free typing tutor on the internet so I can find out exactly how fast I'm typing

The last time I checked was last year and it was roughly 60/70 WPM if I remember correctly

I've got better since then (more accurate at least) and would like to check again


Also, I have an IT teacher who says she can type at 200WPM, hmm, that sounds faster than the speed of light to me, what do you reckon!?

Cheers,

[Doobie]

200WPM hum..... maybe if the words were: he, she, a, at, cat, dog... well you get the point....

[Iman74]

That sounds a bit exagerated but I have to admit. One time only did I hear a person type that sounded like 200 words per minute. Picture it, I'm in a office cube as a field harder technician working on a LJ HP printer. All of a sudden I hear this noise, it's something out of a war movie. I mean it sounded just like a machine gun or more like an uzi. What was it, a woman on a typewriter.

Here is something.

[mike breck]

Your teacher should be in the Guinness Book of records.

http://sominfo.syr.edu/facstaff/dvorak/blackburn.html

Blackburn reached a top speed of 212wpm on occasion.

[skeletonkeys]

This is the same ICT teacher that gave us any number of hilarious idiotic quotes. here are a couple, jim can probably provide many, many more, he's been keeping a written record. (yes, a written record, at no point in our ICT lessons with her are we sitting at computers)

"The WTC disaster was the first media event to be watched by more than 2500 billion people world-wide"

"If it ain't fixed, don't break it"

Keys.

[fatboyjim]

Slander, and I won't hear a word of it.

And also, she'll probably find this post and eat us.

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[raftero]

when i took typing in high school they took off 10 words for every mistake,i think that has changed,i could whip out about 40 on a good day.now i am about down to 10 with several mistakes.i haven't seen any free stuff but i know my daughter bought some software program,i think from best buy, to refresh her typing skills.

[mbossman2]

a friend of mine is a medical transcriptionist (paid by the word) and the fastest that she has ever gotten is 140 wpm.

Unfortunately, she is paying the price for that with tunnel carpal syndrome in both hands/wrists and she will be having surgery shortly.

[bailey]

mavis beacon teaches typing is quite popular around here

[Tuf]

My kids learned using several different versions of "Mavis Beacon". I have seen several online typing tutors that are free by searching on Google.

[mikeL]

jim, Try here www.typingmaster.com

my max speed is 10 to 15 wpm, or until my forearms get cramped up.