(02-06-2021, 03:31 AM)Baggers date Wrote:Wow!! 120 wpm is sensational.60 is pretty good Baggers, worth boasting about!
My very best, on a teleprinter in the Navy, was around 60 wpm. On the latest stuff, around 75-80 when in the groove.
I mostly use CAD or code now so no more fast typing for me, if I tried the arthritis would turn it into garbled rubbish, not that it isn't rubbish already!
Years ago at the newspapers I would watch the linotype guys at work, setting hot metal, they would run in the 80-90 words/min range setting the Herald Sun or Weekly Times. What was that you said about lead or zinc fumes?
The young blokes at work who code electronics(FPGA, PLD) and program robots fulltime are spectacular, I'm a bit old school and do all that with schematics, but they do it all in code touch typing and ironically look almost robotic at full tilt. Blue glasses, headsets, microphones, and Cherry MX keyboards, they are the ones with customised switches, and also customised light up keyboard colours, most of us do not need that I'm sure. For them it actually has a purpose, when they change program or context the colours change to show the different hot keys and keyboard shortcuts. It's something that has grown out of PC gaming, which is why most of those Cherry MX type keyboards are found under Gaming keyboard listings.
As a confession, I've being using voice recognition a bit lately, I wrote it off as a waste of time years ago, but on the new hardware, with Win 10, the latest version of MS Office it works surprisingly well. You still need a quiet place and a good microphone though, and remain very very calm! ;D
"Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck ....... Ruck, ruck, ruck, ruck"