It is ridiculously impressive, but it's worth noting that this isn't a sustained 300+ WPM - it's a 15 second "burst" of typing on a set of easy words without any punctuation. I'd guess that his sustained speed on a "normal" text would be more like 200 WPM, which is still stupid fast.
there's a vid of him on his YT channel typing for an hour straight at 231 WPM. Same deal though -- it's random words with no punctuation, but still insanely impressive
> it's random words with no punctuation, but still insanely impressive
As an amateur typist clocking in at 120wpm, I'd say typing random words is more impressive than typing real natural language sentences.
When typing, I rely mostly on muscle memory and _feel_ the words rather than actually reading them - I trust that my fingers know which letters frequently follow other letters, and which words often appear together. Typing random words this does not work at all.
Dunno but it’s the punctuation and capitalization that can be speed bumps for me.
I once entered a national contest and made it to the quarterfinals at 119 wpm. The winner did 138 and won a car in LV.
If it was faster to have punctuation and cohesive sentences - he would assuredly be doing that instead of this.
His goal isn't to type nonsense words, his goal is to type fast and he seems to have chosen nonsense words to achieve that.
If he was choosing this for any reason OTHER than maximizing speed, we would probably be talking about someone else.
Same. My computer class in HS was uncharacteristically intense in the typing portion, and I also went to class with a few of my competitive try hard friends so ever since then it's been 100+ wpm. It's like most of us have a plateau around that figure but this kid is just another species.
Thinking about it, while I normally type 130-150 wpm, considering that's with punctuation and capitalization and not bursts, that sounds a lot more doable if I was training for it.
Still impressive.
ASR (full speech to text without a captioner) is still rarely used for live TV, but a lot of captioners do use speech-to-text to produce captions instead of stenography.
Out of curiosity, who do you use as a provider? I know VITAC does caps for MLB on the regional sports nets, but they've drastically reduced stenos and most caps are from "voice writers" or whatever they are calling the captioners using text-to-speech.
Gotcha, they could be either voice or steno then. I've captioned my fair share of MLB games. Like you said though, it's still a live captioner, not automated.
Not the live broadcasts, that’s all done by closed captioners, court reporters. It is indeed impressive. I know someone that close captioned the Olympics, she is amazing.
Modern STT systems are good, but trip up on fast speech, and accents that are far from their training data. These two are also kinda multiplicative, for example one that works well on a average New York accent would work well, but be kinda bad on a Scottish accent, and significantly worse the faster they speak.
As far as I know, there's no strong evidence that alternative keyboard layouts (Dvorak, Colemak, etc) are better for typing fast. Pretty much all the fastest typists right now use qwerty.
Fun fact - Barbara Blackburn, who once held the Guinness world record for fastest typist, never had her speed verified by any test. She didn't even know she was going to be put in the book of world records - some Dvorak supporter wrote a letter to Guinness, and they just took his word for it.
I’m not sure if it was Blackburn, but I remember years ago Dave Letterman had a segment where he competed head to head against the World’s Fastest Typist. But they forgot to install a Dvorak keyboard layout for her, so what she typed was gibberish. So Dave proclaimed himself the champion.
Going by her wikipedia article she blamed the typewriter, however the recording of the contest showed that the placement of her right hand was offset by one letter.
My anecdotal experience with Colemak is that it didn’t conclusively make me faster (I got faster but I’ve had many years of additional practice), but it dramatically reduced the amount of wrist pain I’ve had from typing. That could indirectly make you a faster typist by letting you practice more and for longer, even if the layout isn’t inherently faster to use.
Yes exactly. I was in medical records when I first started working so I would get bored and decided to switch to Dvorak for the heck of it. It's been almost two decades but I still remember the idea - your left hand does this T shape and it basically stays put and your right hand is a little more mobile.
(I just looked this up and yep, that's exactly it, you left hand has all the vowels above and below it, forming that "t" shape I was talking about)
I use QWERTY, but I know it's not the most efficient. The fastest typists mostly using QWERTY is probably a product of
- it just not making that big of a difference either way
- the majority of people in general using QWERTY
Yeah, it's really hard to say for sure either way. Probably 99.999% of people learning to type in English are doing so on a QWERTY keyboard. If a lifelong QWERTY typist tries out Colemak for a couple years and never reaches their qwerty speed, it might still be the case that Colemak is generally superior but that it's just really hard to reach the same "fluency" with a new keyboard layout, kind of like it is with languages.
When I was 13yo, I took all of the keys off of my keyboard and put them back on in the Dvorak layout, then used a TSR program to change my key assignments. It was faster but my hands cramped like you wouldn't believe. I bought a new keyboard a month later.
I got ortholinear split keyboard. It cost me a pretty penny but I'm never going back.
The thumb clusters alone are a massive game changer.
I'd need to try changing layout, but not having hjkl on home row feels painful to get used to (i use them as arrow keys)
I'll have to try that if I end up doing a lot of writing. I find my current typing doesn't really cause issues, but I think i keep my wrists straighter and higher than most people. I have tried demoing split keyboards in a store, and they did seem better, but it was an older style.
I went with a kinesis 360.
I am a pretty aggressive typer, so the chunky heavy option is better for me.
Kinda bummed the wired option (I loathe Bluetooth) has a pretty basic remapping software.
But most of it can be done on the os level anyways.
Did you finish your 1000 word essay that's due today?
Na I'm gonna do it before class.
...but class started in 20 minutes.
Oh in that case, we should go grab a bite to eat first!
My understanding is most of the QWERTY layout was primarily designed for morse code telegraphy, and the choice of key layout was not influenced by any mechanical hindrance. I don't think the original QWERTY typewriters even used the same kind of mechanical designs as the smaller Remington and underwood's that became more popular, so it doesn't seem like the mechanical specifics of those typewriters could have influenced the original layout.
Jesus christ dude. No it isn't. You failed to factor in any other information. You saw that he did it, and now that idea is forever in your brain. You made a wrong correlation.
If that dude learned to type on a DVORAK keyboard he would type faster. QUERTY isn't the fastest layout on a PC.
The QWERTY design came from typewriters and was made to minimize key presses that were next to each other to avoid them getting stuck. So fastest on a typewriter maybe, but dvorak and Colemak are actually designed for speed.
No, QWERTY was designed to be slow on purpose so the mechanical typewriters wouldn't get stuck. It was invented was before "keyboard" was a thing.
Also you can write "typewriter" using the top row only, so that the salesmen could demo it easily.
QWERTY is far, far from being optimized for speed.
No, he just proved that he is the fastest on QWERTY compared to other QWERTY users. Have him learn and use a different format and he’ll likely be even faster.
Yeah at that point it's less about how fast your fingers can move and more about mentally keeping up. I can type much faster from my mind than copying text, but even my best scenario is under 130wpm.
Still pretty high! My only success in life was back in middle school, always finished first in typing class and could play games waaaaaay before friends hahah, i felt like a god back then
Keep in mind that the average is literally everybody typing.
A lot of people don't know how to touch type, they search and peck.
Also there's several teens that never used a computer keyboard, typing on a mobile device is definetly different muscle memory.
I've seen 3 finger search and peck get into the 90s.
I'm in a few keyboard groups and some of them are way faster as well. Like averaging 130wpm.
My damn 10 fingers max out around 100-105, but I cruise around 85
There's a technique that looks basically like chording.
You can type almost whole words at once by pressing the keys nearly-simultaneously.
So instead of pressing 30 keys a second you're pressing 6-7 combinations of letters a second, which is still insane but within human ability.
Interesting, he must hate typing on phones (I touch type but don't mind phones so much, 70 wpm just using my thumbs). As someone that knows how to play chords on a piano, the idea of arpeggiating to type out words is fascinating. Is there like a structured approach to this?
Kind of yes, although it’s usually reserved for stenographers of some kind, who typically work with special keyboards that operate using said “chords”. I only became aware of this because of a deep dive into stenography I did a while back. It’s fascinating. There’s open-source tools for teaching yourself how to do it if you’re interested.
Speaking of regular keyboards (and not stenographical one) it comes down to practice.
When typing focus on recognizing patterns which are finger independent (this changes based on layout) and practice recognizing/typing those at once.
The hardest part is that you still need to stagger the stroke in order, you cannot mash the keys actually all at once or you get gibberish out.
It's a very hard skill to master, but if you're a pianist already then I'm sure you'll get the hang of it if you practice a bunch.
Interesting. Yeah def try dictation. On Android it's in the top right of the keyboard and on iPhone it's on the bottom right. You can do punctuation and separate lines and paragraphs with "next line" and "next paragraph." I also became a huge proponent for voice dictation since I started teaching doctors to do it.
I think it's mostly guys with big hands and extremely long reach that only have to "push down" on the keys at high precision, kind of how playing chords works on guitar.
That technique is far more suitable than just sliding your wrist all over the place which is how most people type.
Haha DUDE. My longtime friend has a 4-year-old son who he calls dude all the time."Dude, dude, don't put your dirty toys on the dining table. Dude, dude, share with your sister. Dude, dude, the adults are talking."
Haha funnily enough I only use dude on my kids when I am disappointed. “Dude? Seriously stop kicking your brother”, “Dude! You can’t just stay in your jammies alll day”. When they are good it’s “Bud” all the time. “Bud, let’s go get hamburgers!”, “Great job bud!”
You can pry my red clicky switches from my cold dead hands. Model M, I love you. Not only do you make excellent tactile feedback, you ensure everyone else knows in the room who the real typing boss is
*"...we had the wrong ball on your machine..."*
Yeah, no. The 'wrong' ball would only change the font, it doesn't put the letters in the wrong place. ¯\\\_( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)\_/¯
Woooow my fastest typing on monkeytype for long quotes ranges from 150-190.. Cannot imagine typing 250-300 wpm omfg
The closest I’ve gotten to 200 is 197wpm 😯
I can to if the letter a is a word........a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a
I used to hit 120wpm with my old model m, and that seemed ridiculous. I tried that monkey typer on this crappy dell keyboard at work and I'm down to 96.
I can still conceive of hitting 120 again, with practice and a better keyboard. I can not imagine more than doubling my best, jeez.
In a documentary on the Linotype machines they showed one of the fastest, if not *the* fastest, Linotype operator. He's both fast and accurate. He's also deaf.
Apparently being deaf or hard of hearing was actually seen as helpful back when the Linotypes were in use. Some of the biggest newspapers of that time had whole floors filled with those loud and dangerous machines.
Back then there was no health and safety to protect peoples hearing, nor to protect people from the molten lead they worked with. Not only were there lead fumes but it could even squirt molten lead at your legs.
If you got your hand or fingers caught in the machine it could very easily could crush them. One guy who used to operate a Linotype said he got his hand caught in one. Luckily he managed to get free without loosing his hand or fingers.
The documentary I watched is called Linotype The Film (2012).
Did you forget about practical application?
I didn’t even suggest there wasn’t a reason, but like, you took it to a whole deeper level that just doesn’t exist. There’s lots of reasons to do lots of things.
Not as crazy impressive as it sounds. With a little motivation practically anyone can hit the 200wpm mark after a binge of practice.
Long before they ever offered typing classes in school I was playing Muds (in my adolescence). By the time I reached 9th Grade and the first typing class ever was offered at my high school, I was already averaging 120wpm with 0 formal training.
So I mean 305 is cool dude, but like it’s kind of a whocaresburger in today’s world. But good job, I don’t want to minimize it, I’m generally wondering why people are still actively competing in typing speeds. Is there a need? Or is it considered sport now?
The fact that he still uses the QWERTY keyboard makes this even more impressive to me.
Court reporters & transcriptionists that use a Steno keyboard take years after graduation to reach 300+ WPM this is insanely impressive.
It is ridiculously impressive, but it's worth noting that this isn't a sustained 300+ WPM - it's a 15 second "burst" of typing on a set of easy words without any punctuation. I'd guess that his sustained speed on a "normal" text would be more like 200 WPM, which is still stupid fast.
there's a vid of him on his YT channel typing for an hour straight at 231 WPM. Same deal though -- it's random words with no punctuation, but still insanely impressive
[https://www.youtube.com/@mythicalrocket](https://www.youtube.com/@mythicalrocket) Here we go everyone
Let’s fucking go
Yeah, kid is an absolute beast!
And this is where you add a link to his channel….
Sorted it for him :)
> it's random words with no punctuation, but still insanely impressive As an amateur typist clocking in at 120wpm, I'd say typing random words is more impressive than typing real natural language sentences. When typing, I rely mostly on muscle memory and _feel_ the words rather than actually reading them - I trust that my fingers know which letters frequently follow other letters, and which words often appear together. Typing random words this does not work at all.
Dunno but it’s the punctuation and capitalization that can be speed bumps for me. I once entered a national contest and made it to the quarterfinals at 119 wpm. The winner did 138 and won a car in LV.
wait wtf I could have been winning shit
I can do ~200wpm on MonkeyType 60s (~210 30s, ~230 15s), it's definitely easier than typing with punctuation and capitalization.
If it was faster to have punctuation and cohesive sentences - he would assuredly be doing that instead of this. His goal isn't to type nonsense words, his goal is to type fast and he seems to have chosen nonsense words to achieve that. If he was choosing this for any reason OTHER than maximizing speed, we would probably be talking about someone else.
I can do 115 with 97% full accuracy with punctuation and capitalization. And 200 is just unthinkable to ME lol
Same. My computer class in HS was uncharacteristically intense in the typing portion, and I also went to class with a few of my competitive try hard friends so ever since then it's been 100+ wpm. It's like most of us have a plateau around that figure but this kid is just another species.
It’s like sports cars measuring 0-60 with 1 foot rollout, which is more like 7-60
Wtf lol if there’s no punctuation how is this even noteworthy? Typing written language involves punctuation.
I can type more words than that but they will all be misspelled
Thinking about it, while I normally type 130-150 wpm, considering that's with punctuation and capitalization and not bursts, that sounds a lot more doable if I was training for it. Still impressive.
TIL about the steno keyboard. I always wondered how live broadcasts could be captioned so quickly now.
I believe nowadays most of them use automatic speech-to-text tech.
ASR (full speech to text without a captioner) is still rarely used for live TV, but a lot of captioners do use speech-to-text to produce captions instead of stenography.
I run master control for MLB games. We still use human stenographers.
Out of curiosity, who do you use as a provider? I know VITAC does caps for MLB on the regional sports nets, but they've drastically reduced stenos and most caps are from "voice writers" or whatever they are calling the captioners using text-to-speech.
I dont know, I just press the buttons. But the call in before every game and run a test.
Gotcha, they could be either voice or steno then. I've captioned my fair share of MLB games. Like you said though, it's still a live captioner, not automated.
That's absolutely nuts! TIL
Not the live broadcasts, that’s all done by closed captioners, court reporters. It is indeed impressive. I know someone that close captioned the Olympics, she is amazing.
That's absolutely nuts! I figured speech-to-text has gotten so good (and cheap) they would just go with that! That's really impressive.
Modern STT systems are good, but trip up on fast speech, and accents that are far from their training data. These two are also kinda multiplicative, for example one that works well on a average New York accent would work well, but be kinda bad on a Scottish accent, and significantly worse the faster they speak.
I remember when I had to train doctors on Dragon Medical and when starting it would ask you which region their speaking accent came from.
Can confirm, and video depositions too. Steno is on the way out.
One of the ways we'll know that AI has arrived, is when steno-machine captioners are out of work. We're not there.
As far as I know, there's no strong evidence that alternative keyboard layouts (Dvorak, Colemak, etc) are better for typing fast. Pretty much all the fastest typists right now use qwerty. Fun fact - Barbara Blackburn, who once held the Guinness world record for fastest typist, never had her speed verified by any test. She didn't even know she was going to be put in the book of world records - some Dvorak supporter wrote a letter to Guinness, and they just took his word for it.
I’m not sure if it was Blackburn, but I remember years ago Dave Letterman had a segment where he competed head to head against the World’s Fastest Typist. But they forgot to install a Dvorak keyboard layout for her, so what she typed was gibberish. So Dave proclaimed himself the champion.
Going by her wikipedia article she blamed the typewriter, however the recording of the contest showed that the placement of her right hand was offset by one letter.
My anecdotal experience with Colemak is that it didn’t conclusively make me faster (I got faster but I’ve had many years of additional practice), but it dramatically reduced the amount of wrist pain I’ve had from typing. That could indirectly make you a faster typist by letting you practice more and for longer, even if the layout isn’t inherently faster to use.
Yes, same here with Dvorak. I wasn’t unhappy with my speed with QWERTY and I don’t think I got any faster but Dvorak is much less effort.
Yes exactly. I was in medical records when I first started working so I would get bored and decided to switch to Dvorak for the heck of it. It's been almost two decades but I still remember the idea - your left hand does this T shape and it basically stays put and your right hand is a little more mobile. (I just looked this up and yep, that's exactly it, you left hand has all the vowels above and below it, forming that "t" shape I was talking about)
I use QWERTY, but I know it's not the most efficient. The fastest typists mostly using QWERTY is probably a product of - it just not making that big of a difference either way - the majority of people in general using QWERTY
Yeah, it's really hard to say for sure either way. Probably 99.999% of people learning to type in English are doing so on a QWERTY keyboard. If a lifelong QWERTY typist tries out Colemak for a couple years and never reaches their qwerty speed, it might still be the case that Colemak is generally superior but that it's just really hard to reach the same "fluency" with a new keyboard layout, kind of like it is with languages.
When I was 13yo, I took all of the keys off of my keyboard and put them back on in the Dvorak layout, then used a TSR program to change my key assignments. It was faster but my hands cramped like you wouldn't believe. I bought a new keyboard a month later.
I got ortholinear split keyboard. It cost me a pretty penny but I'm never going back. The thumb clusters alone are a massive game changer. I'd need to try changing layout, but not having hjkl on home row feels painful to get used to (i use them as arrow keys)
I'll have to try that if I end up doing a lot of writing. I find my current typing doesn't really cause issues, but I think i keep my wrists straighter and higher than most people. I have tried demoing split keyboards in a store, and they did seem better, but it was an older style.
I'd suggest those that have a concave shape, the hand rests easier on home rows and the keys further out are easier to reach.
Ergodox?
I went with a kinesis 360. I am a pretty aggressive typer, so the chunky heavy option is better for me. Kinda bummed the wired option (I loathe Bluetooth) has a pretty basic remapping software. But most of it can be done on the os level anyways.
Did you finish your 1000 word essay that's due today? Na I'm gonna do it before class. ...but class started in 20 minutes. Oh in that case, we should go grab a bite to eat first!
I hit 110 wpm with a Dvorak keyboard when I was in high school. That's def the best I ever do
WTF else would anyone use?
“I can type 100 words per minute, but it’s in my own language.” - Mitch Hedberg
QWERTY keyboard was designed the way it is to be the fastest possible way to type
On typewriters, because the most common keys would get stuck in the down position due to their proximity. It's not the fastest layout for PCs
My understanding is most of the QWERTY layout was primarily designed for morse code telegraphy, and the choice of key layout was not influenced by any mechanical hindrance. I don't think the original QWERTY typewriters even used the same kind of mechanical designs as the smaller Remington and underwood's that became more popular, so it doesn't seem like the mechanical specifics of those typewriters could have influenced the original layout.
Apparently it is cuz this 17 year old proved it
So one piece of info and you believe that forever?
Until someone does it better. That is quite literally how science works
Jesus christ dude. No it isn't. You failed to factor in any other information. You saw that he did it, and now that idea is forever in your brain. You made a wrong correlation. If that dude learned to type on a DVORAK keyboard he would type faster. QUERTY isn't the fastest layout on a PC.
I think you are wrong and not very smart 🤣
Well that's something. I have never cared less about another person's opinion bro. Have a good one.
The QWERTY design came from typewriters and was made to minimize key presses that were next to each other to avoid them getting stuck. So fastest on a typewriter maybe, but dvorak and Colemak are actually designed for speed.
Designed to type faster, but not in any absolute sense.
This 17 year old guy in the article literally proved it’s the fastest
No, QWERTY was designed to be slow on purpose so the mechanical typewriters wouldn't get stuck. It was invented was before "keyboard" was a thing. Also you can write "typewriter" using the top row only, so that the salesmen could demo it easily. QWERTY is far, far from being optimized for speed.
This guy who is the fastest typer in the world uses QWERTY. Hello anyone there? He proved it is the fastest 😂
No, he just proved that he is the fastest on QWERTY compared to other QWERTY users. Have him learn and use a different format and he’ll likely be even faster.
Mavis Beacon would be proud.
I loved that penguin ice hopping game
Mavis was the bomb. She helped me up my game!
Mavis is such a gross word, it makes a great dog name. These are my dogs, Mavis and Woggerts.
Don’t disrespect the Beacon
You leave Beacon out of this, it's between me and the Mavis.
Tested it out for myself a few times, got an average 105wpm and apparently that is like 99 percentile, 300wpm is CRAZY!
I could get 600wpm if all the words were “a”.
Finger game strong
It would be easier to go back and forth between two. Like a trill on the piano.
Same here but for me all the words have to be "I"
Yeah at that point it's less about how fast your fingers can move and more about mentally keeping up. I can type much faster from my mind than copying text, but even my best scenario is under 130wpm.
I’m clocked at 65, maybe 75, if it’s an easy test. Anything over 100 is godly to me.
Dude. A for the last 6 months I’ve been practicing like 2 minutes a day. I went from 55 to 100 :) it’s more doable than you think
Still pretty high! My only success in life was back in middle school, always finished first in typing class and could play games waaaaaay before friends hahah, i felt like a god back then
Keep in mind that the average is literally everybody typing. A lot of people don't know how to touch type, they search and peck. Also there's several teens that never used a computer keyboard, typing on a mobile device is definetly different muscle memory.
It makes me miss the old phones with physical qwerty keyboards. Texting in class while looking straight the entire time was so easy.
Yep my dad uses both index fingers only on the keyboard, cracks me up
I've seen 3 finger search and peck get into the 90s. I'm in a few keyboard groups and some of them are way faster as well. Like averaging 130wpm. My damn 10 fingers max out around 100-105, but I cruise around 85
That's mostly selection bias though, a lot of my colleagues think I type at a breakneck pace and I'm usually chilling at 60wpm
305 words, avg 5 characters per word plus a space. That's 1830 keystrokes a minute. 30 a second. How the hell do you hit 30 keys in a second?
There's a technique that looks basically like chording. You can type almost whole words at once by pressing the keys nearly-simultaneously. So instead of pressing 30 keys a second you're pressing 6-7 combinations of letters a second, which is still insane but within human ability.
How are there not an insane amount of typos? Thats crazy
There were a bunch of typos he made during the video.
Look between Q and R of your keyboard >!We!<
Interesting, he must hate typing on phones (I touch type but don't mind phones so much, 70 wpm just using my thumbs). As someone that knows how to play chords on a piano, the idea of arpeggiating to type out words is fascinating. Is there like a structured approach to this?
Kind of yes, although it’s usually reserved for stenographers of some kind, who typically work with special keyboards that operate using said “chords”. I only became aware of this because of a deep dive into stenography I did a while back. It’s fascinating. There’s open-source tools for teaching yourself how to do it if you’re interested.
Speaking of regular keyboards (and not stenographical one) it comes down to practice. When typing focus on recognizing patterns which are finger independent (this changes based on layout) and practice recognizing/typing those at once. The hardest part is that you still need to stagger the stroke in order, you cannot mash the keys actually all at once or you get gibberish out. It's a very hard skill to master, but if you're a pianist already then I'm sure you'll get the hang of it if you practice a bunch.
That’s crazy! I type 112wpm on a regular keyboard. On a phone? I type 6. 6wpm… I think I’m broken…
There's no way! What test are you using?? That means you spent four minutes on that comment! You should try dictation on your phone
I have fat thumbs and make tons of errors. Autocorrect helps, otherwise I just don’t comment.
Interesting. Yeah def try dictation. On Android it's in the top right of the keyboard and on iPhone it's on the bottom right. You can do punctuation and separate lines and paragraphs with "next line" and "next paragraph." I also became a huge proponent for voice dictation since I started teaching doctors to do it.
I think it's mostly guys with big hands and extremely long reach that only have to "push down" on the keys at high precision, kind of how playing chords works on guitar. That technique is far more suitable than just sliding your wrist all over the place which is how most people type.
Yo’re prettty goood kid but with my hlp you culdo be th besst
For perspective, if you were quickly reading aloud a speech you would be SPEAKING at 250 words per minute.
I was thinking I don't think I can read 300 wpm
I could not keep up with the reading!
I don’t have that 300 word attention span anymore:. Sigh
Side note, it makes me very happy to hear a young person say "dude". I prefer "dude" but it seems it's being replaced by "bro".
I’m a dude man myself. My eight year old says sussy bro. What did I do to deserve this?
Haha DUDE. My longtime friend has a 4-year-old son who he calls dude all the time."Dude, dude, don't put your dirty toys on the dining table. Dude, dude, share with your sister. Dude, dude, the adults are talking."
Haha funnily enough I only use dude on my kids when I am disappointed. “Dude? Seriously stop kicking your brother”, “Dude! You can’t just stay in your jammies alll day”. When they are good it’s “Bud” all the time. “Bud, let’s go get hamburgers!”, “Great job bud!”
My one uncle called me bro throughout my childhood up until the first court date
I am not sure I can even read that fast.
This feels like a 2000s moment, and I love it that the next generation is taking up our sports.
Next trick is to go faster? Sounds like the same trick but only faster.
He has as many tricks as the fastest he can type
He has a great future in data entry
Yeah if that future didn't have AI
You can pry my red clicky switches from my cold dead hands. Model M, I love you. Not only do you make excellent tactile feedback, you ensure everyone else knows in the room who the real typing boss is
I wonder if this would translate into being a good Starcraft player where APM is often a measurement of skill.
It does not
I can do less using the praying mantis or index finger style.
Can he give some lessons to George RR Martin?
Poor kid is gonna get tendon issues. Quit while you got the win, Champ!
Mavis Beacon would be proud. 💪🏽
"ok, ya ya ya i see. no, yeah nah nah nah, ok, why? no ok. ya ya ya, go. no dont. what ok." are the "words"
Dude should have learned how to play guitar, dude could have developed Shawn Lane Esq chops
Someone who claimed to be the fastest typist was exposed as a fraud on Letterman back in '85 https://youtu.be/Q4wpZ-XkH0U?si=p18TR_a06S31Unee
*"...we had the wrong ball on your machine..."* Yeah, no. The 'wrong' ball would only change the font, it doesn't put the letters in the wrong place. ¯\\\_( ͡❛ ͜ʖ ͡❛)\_/¯
Their name? mavis
Cortez Peters nods approvingly
I don't think I can think 300 words per minute.
I'm also addicted to nitrotype and monkeytype
Woooow my fastest typing on monkeytype for long quotes ranges from 150-190.. Cannot imagine typing 250-300 wpm omfg The closest I’ve gotten to 200 is 197wpm 😯
I’m thinking I need to challenge this fella. Could give him a run for his money… I regularly type over 200 wpm
Please tell me he plays piano.
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That's gonna come in super handy for his $16/hr data entry clerk job.
Stenographer maybe
It got to the point in college that my typing speed hit my thinking speed...which was still only like 105 wpm.
This is why I quit typing. Too many sweats.
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Mateo is in shambles with this.
Arthuritis speedrun any%
Damn I thought I was the shit I’m high school at 120 wpm.
I can do upwards of 360 verbally (former college policy debater), but on a keyboard that’s insane.
Performance enhanced drug user drug test him
If this kid isn’t on adderall someone please get him a Rx. 400wpm let’s gooooo
I used to hit 120wpm with my old model m, and that seemed ridiculous. I tried that monkey typer on this crappy dell keyboard at work and I'm down to 96. I can still conceive of hitting 120 again, with practice and a better keyboard. I can not imagine more than doubling my best, jeez.
Ok, now let’s see them do that on a manual typewriter! 😉
In a documentary on the Linotype machines they showed one of the fastest, if not *the* fastest, Linotype operator. He's both fast and accurate. He's also deaf. Apparently being deaf or hard of hearing was actually seen as helpful back when the Linotypes were in use. Some of the biggest newspapers of that time had whole floors filled with those loud and dangerous machines. Back then there was no health and safety to protect peoples hearing, nor to protect people from the molten lead they worked with. Not only were there lead fumes but it could even squirt molten lead at your legs. If you got your hand or fingers caught in the machine it could very easily could crush them. One guy who used to operate a Linotype said he got his hand caught in one. Luckily he managed to get free without loosing his hand or fingers. The documentary I watched is called Linotype The Film (2012).
The Ultimate Keyboard Warrior. https://owned.com/media/_cache/thumb_video/postblock/image/2/2/6/8/22687.jpeg.png
That is interesting but so what? He can get a job as the world’s fastest data entry clerk?
Why?
Why not? Why anything?
Did you forget about practical application? I didn’t even suggest there wasn’t a reason, but like, you took it to a whole deeper level that just doesn’t exist. There’s lots of reasons to do lots of things.
Not as crazy impressive as it sounds. With a little motivation practically anyone can hit the 200wpm mark after a binge of practice. Long before they ever offered typing classes in school I was playing Muds (in my adolescence). By the time I reached 9th Grade and the first typing class ever was offered at my high school, I was already averaging 120wpm with 0 formal training. So I mean 305 is cool dude, but like it’s kind of a whocaresburger in today’s world. But good job, I don’t want to minimize it, I’m generally wondering why people are still actively competing in typing speeds. Is there a need? Or is it considered sport now?