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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 |
This text has been typed
more than
1000 times:
| Avg. speed: | 75 WPM |
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| Avg. accuracy: | 96.6% |
Top 10 scores for this text
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| 1 | joshua728 | 210 WPM | 99.0% | 171 | 1/2 | Sept. 24, 2023 |
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| 2 | arenasnow2 | 206 WPM | 99.0% | N/A | 1/3 | July 25, 2016 |
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| 3 | mythicalrocket | 206 WPM | 100.0% | 168 | 1/5 | Oct. 17, 2022 |
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| 4 | arenasnow | 204 WPM | 100.0% | 167 | 1/2 | March 27, 2019 |
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| 5 | typos_z | 199 WPM | 100.0% | 162 | 1/2 | Aug. 22, 2023 |
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| 6 | charlingtonlaevionhrrcheknavar | 198 WPM | 99.0% | 162 | 1/3 | July 20, 2023 |
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| 7 | jewishguy_ | 193 WPM | 100.0% | 158 | 1/4 | May 16, 2022 |
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| 8 | klist | 190 WPM | 100.0% | 155 | 1/5 | Nov. 7, 2022 |
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| 9 | deroche1 | 188 WPM | 100.0% | 154 | 1/2 | Dec. 10, 2020 |
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| 10 | chakk | 188 WPM | 99.0% | 153 | 1/5 | Oct. 1, 2018 |
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