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I got 54 wpm, but lots of mistakes, mostly because I am crap at spelling even when copying the text.

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72 wpm with 8 mistakes.

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They've been quite clever. The comma doesn't appear in a desktop browser, but it's in the text as it appears when you copy it. It's why cut+paste gives you around 100 errors.

(61 wpm + 3 errors)

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Ditto my mum - she was a speedy whizz across the page or keyboard.

Will go and do test when I have a few mins.

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I should add, that while my typing may not be fantastic, I am pretty good , both fast and accurate with data entry using the numerical keypad.

I spent 4 years doing a PhD and inputting research data (mostly numbers - the weight of eggs believe it or not!)... that kind of stays with you.

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31 wpm with 2 mistakes, hmm slow and careless, can only get better I guess :thumbup:

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73wpm (1 mistake).

I too learned shorthand (pitmans) and typing as a young lass - courtesy of Clarke's College - and somewhere have the certificates to prove it. The course was 'business studies' and you had to write orders, letters of complaint & etc., to practice your skills. My hand writing, of course, was appalling and homework was often thrown back at me in disgust! :)

"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" (and) "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the party" were our practice sentences, repeatedly typed to the William Tell Overture on ancient Underwood typewriters (complete with bell when your carriage hit the end). When a mistake was made woe betide if you rubbed it out on the carbon copy (literally a carbon copy) and went through the paper or smudged it.

Those were the days, sigh................ and I am so glad they are gone!

Yay for word processors and computers!

:D

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61wpm - no mistakes. Im ahppy wtih tht! :D

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Hmm 38wpm and 2 mistakes - that's why I was never a secretary and had other people to type my letters, until the PC wiped out the typing pool - baah humbug!

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Impressive skills.....shame the folks in certain service industries don't have this when dealing with them on the phone :D

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I started but fell asleep before I got to the end............... :)

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I wouldn't be so sure you made "proper" mistakes.

I got 31 wpm with 4 supposed mistakes.

The words by and as are not normally capitalised mid-sentence so I didn't capitalise them. So I'm calling that two mistakes, not four. :p