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Old 07-11-2005, 10:36 PM  
rickholio
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I can get 100wpm, 120 on a good day.

Been using a QWERTY keyboard regularly for 20+ years now... everything is just natural now I guess. No need to look at the KB for anything other than special keys/punctuation now... I want to type something, my hands just type it. It's like when you've been playing guitar for years; eventually, when you get familar enough with it, your hands will just make the chord you're thinking about, or play the next note in the solo effortlessly and without requiring concentration on finger placement except for extraordinary notes or techniques.

FWIW, I can type considerably faster when I'm typing what I want to type, basically stream of consciousness direct to the page, rather than transcription. I can routinely blow away the speeds from that typing test page if I'm typing something from memory. When I'm really motoring I can more or less subvocalize at the same speed I can type.

One of these days I'll give Dvorak a try. Maybe get to 150+ and see whether my fingertips will actually burst into flames.
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