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Re:Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing... by epolanski on Thursday January 06, 2022 @05:25PM (#29831292)
Exactly, I'm a touch typist and regularly train on various websites. The biggest blocker after you start reaching high speeds isn't even the keyboard but the brain. You need to read far far ahead to write at 130+ wpm you basically are typing a word while you read the following sentence. 200+ requires writing even more ahead.

A normal person can barely "mentally process" that many words per second.

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Re:Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing... by maximus-decimus on Thursday January 06, 2022 @07:36PM (#29832941)
The average person speaks at 160 words so i have a hard time believing they can't process 130. Although that would explain why people say things that are so stupid lol.
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Re:Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing... by epolanski on Thursday January 06, 2022 @07:42PM (#29833017)
That was referred to the 500 wpm.
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Re:Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing... by maximus-decimus on Friday January 07, 2022 @08:40AM (#29838954)
Something I find interesting is that thoughts definitely spawn faster in my head than I can verbalize them. I wonder if you learned to think in chording if you could think faster than with sounds. And if we could, what would be the upper limit?
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Re:Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing... by westopheles on Thursday January 06, 2022 @05:37PM (#29831493)
A bit OT, but can you recommend/do you know of any touch typing training websites which include training for the numeric keypad, or even for the numbers/symbols row above the alphabetic symbols?
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Re:Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing... by opan on Thursday January 06, 2022 @10:27PM (#29834460)
Monkeytype works well for this if you tweak the defaults. Turn on capital letters, punctuation, numbers, and change the time to 60 seconds. I did this at the start of learning a new keyboard layout and got quite comfortable with the numrow and symbols.
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Re:Keyboard lets people type so fast it’s banned from typing... by epolanski on Thursday January 06, 2022 @06:05PM (#29831881)
I learned touch typing on https://www.typingclub.com/
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