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WHAT IS TYPING?Before we start to go more into details about world fastest typist, we would like to mention what is typing and some facts about how difficult is to be a typist.
Typing is basically writing or retype text (or some kind of text input). It can be done on different was and different kind of techniques – mobile phone, typewriter, laptop/keyboard, calculator.
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TYPING TECHNIQUES
There are 5 main typing techniques used for typing services:
• Touch typing• Hunt and peck• Hybrid• Buffering• Thumbing
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TYPING TECHNIQUES
Touch typingThis technique is one of the
main standards techniques for accurate typing services. Here typist is keeping focus on the source copy and also typist wrists are not on the typing
surface.
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TYPING TECHNIQUES
Hunt and peckIn this technique typist is
having constant visual contact with keyboard, not
seeing a screen or paper while typing.
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TYPING TECHNIQUESHybrid
Significant number of typing styles can be in so called “hybrid style”
typing that is often used for typing services online. This style is
combination of “touch typing” and “hunt and peck” typing styles.
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TYPING TECHNIQUES
BufferingBuffering is also one kind of hybrid
typing. In this technique typist reads several sentences from
source and then memorize them and type them at once.
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TYPING TECHNIQUES
ThumbingThis technique came after 1980 year, with all kind of touch screen kind of input keyboards, where input of text is done with thumbs.
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TYPING SPEEDIn order to be better version of themselves, typist are not only continuously developing new typing techniques (also that are used for online typing services), but also they are measuring typing speed.
Measure of speed is WPM – word per minute. Also there is set of rules to follow when you are measuring someone’s typing speed in order to make that measurement relevant.
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CHAMPION TYPISTS AND RECORDS IN TYPEWRITING
Now, we will go through a historical part of typewriting. Also we will go through some of the most famous
and fastest typists in the world.
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CHAMPION TYPISTS AND RECORDS IN TYPEWRITING
This are 4 fastest typist of last century: from left, George Hossfeld, Stella Willins, Irma Wright and Albert Tangora.
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CHAMPION TYPISTS AND RECORDS IN TYPEWRITING
Henry William Lockyer Digby, He was born on New Zealand and his
records were accomplished in
Australia.
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CHAMPION TYPISTS AND RECORDS IN TYPEWRITING
J.N.Kimball was for long period of time main
executive for organizing championships and
writing texts for typists.
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CHAMPION TYPISTS AND RECORDS IN TYPEWRITING
Margaret B. Owen, won 4 world titles and three
championships from 1915 to 1917. First one
she won in 1913.
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CHAMPION TYPISTS AND RECORDS IN TYPEWRITING
Emil Anton Trefzger won world title in 1914. He
was born in Peoria, Illinois, on 18.3.1888. and died on 19.4.1961.
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CHAMPION TYPISTS AND RECORDS IN TYPEWRITING
In recent times, there are also marvelous typists. Here are
some of them:
• Longest typing marathon: Les Stewart• Fastest typing on an electric typewriter: Margaret Hamma
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CHAMPION TYPISTS AND RECORDS IN TYPEWRITING
Latest record was from Barbara Blackburn. She is credited by the Guinness
Book of Records (2005). She is fastest English typist in the
world.
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