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Typing competitions provided another test of the Qwerty keyboard. These competitions are somewhat underplayed in the conventional history. In fact, typing contests and demonstrations of speed were fairly common during this period. They involved many different machines, with various manufacturers claiming to hold the speed record.
Famous Fables of Economics, Chapter 4: Fable of the Keys (book) by Stan J. Liebowitz and Stephen E. Margolis
Language: English
This text has been typed more than 1000 times:
Avg. speed: 84 WPM
Avg. accuracy: 96.7%

Top 10 scores for this text

User Speed Accuracy Points Place Date Options
1 joshua728 225 WPM 99% 172 1/2 Oct 13, 2023
2 mythicalrocket 215 WPM 99% 165 1/4 Mar 25, 2023
3 arenasnow2 204 WPM 99% N/A 1/3 Aug 21, 2012
4 arenasnow 201 WPM 99% 154 1/2 Mar 25, 2019
5 typos_z 199 WPM 99% 152 1/2 May 7, 2023
6 megaextremist 195 WPM 99% 149 1/3 Aug 14, 2021
7 sahibprime 194 WPM 100% 149 1/2 Sep 11, 2023
8 helloimnotgood1 194 WPM 99% 149 1/2 Apr 6, 2025
9 florentine 193 WPM 99% N/A 1/3 Jul 5, 2017
10 iamtyperacer 192 WPM 99% 147 1/5 Apr 13, 2021