Ask Slashdot: Typing Advice For a Guinness World Record Attempt? 307
An anonymous reader writes "In fifth grade, I amazed my fellow classmates when I demonstrated what 132 words per minute looked like. Recently, an acquaintance of mine saw me typing out a word document for graduate school and was impressed by my typing abilities. He suggested that I seriously contemplate attempting a Guinness World Record with such abilities. At the moment, I can manage an average of about 155-160 words per minute, with bursts around 180-185 words per minute (in the typing world, five characters defines a word, in case you were wondering). That aside, I have a few questions to pose to Slashdot readers (whom I am sure have been typing much longer than I have): What are some tips to fully maximize one's ability to type at the fastest possible rate? Do you have any specific keyboard recommendations that will improve my speed? Has anybody here ever competed in a typing event or thought about going for the world record? Is it worth learning Dvorak for the sole purpose of attempting such a record? How difficult would it be to improve my typing abilities from where they are now to where they need to be to acquire such a record?"
Re:I didn't catch that... (Score:3, Funny)
In the editing world, editors edit documents in the editing world in case you were wondering.
Hepl offreed (Score:5, Funny)
PS2 VS USB? (Score:5, Funny)
PS2 VS USB?
what one can handle faster input?
Re:PS2 VS USB? (Score:5, Funny)
Do they have USB 3.0 keyboards yet? That could handle millions or words per minute...
Re:Bad place to ask (Score:5, Funny)
Like I tell my wife, "I may not be good, but at least I'm fast!"
Re:PS2 VS USB? (Score:5, Funny)
USB easily; a DualShock 2 controller is lousy for picking letters at any decent speed.
The Speed Racer effect hampers documents... (Score:2, Funny)
"(in the typing world, five characters defines a word in the typing world, in case you were wondering)."
If you are in the typing world,
and you want to communicate
something in the typing wold,
and you can avoid repeating
items in the typing world,
you would have less time spent
typing about things in the typing world,
and then you would go through documents
really fast as you type then in the typing world.
GO SPEED RACER, GO!
Re:Bad place to ask (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hello? Editors? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Bad place to ask (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hello? Editors? (Score:4, Funny)
use voice recognition (Score:4, Funny)
Then learn how to speed talk and use voice to text. You'll never type as fast as that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute#Speech_and_listening [wikipedia.org]
Re:I didn't catch that... (Score:5, Funny)
<movietrailervoice>"In a world where all words are five letters... one man can make the difference between brilliance and darkness..."</movietrailervoice>
"Innna world where allll words arrre fiive lttrs... onnne mannn cannn maake theee dfrnc betwn brlnc annnd drkns..."