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When completed successfully, if high-scoring players achieve a score that is 25% higher than their recorded CAPTCHA speed, an additional challenge-response test will be reactivated. After a player completes a race, five metrics measure the user's performance: registered wpm, unlagged wpm, accuracy, points, and rank.
From the 1920s through the 1970s, typing speed (along with shorthand speed) was an important secretarial qualification and typing contests were popular and often publicized by typewriter companies as promotional tools. A less common measure of the speed of a typist, CPM is used to identify the number of characters typed per minute.
The first message sent on the Moscow–Washington hotline on August 30, 1963, was the test phrase "THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPED OVER THE LAZY DOG'S BACK 1234567890". [8] Later, during testing, the Russian translators sent a message asking their American counterparts, "What does it mean when your people say 'The quick brown fox jumped over the ...
The Russian and Ukrainian Phonetic Keyboard 2.0 is designed for Russian and Ukrainian speakers using standard QWERTY keyboards. It maps Cyrillic characters to phonetically similar English letters, enabling efficient bilingual typing without modifying the physical keyboard layout.
The domain speedtest.net has been used to host a speed test since 2000, and was acquired by Ookla in 2006. [12] As of 2011, Ookla claimed 80% market share and was one of the top 1000 most popular websites. At the time, Ookla derived its revenue primarily from fees paid by companies to license custom speed test and proprietary testing software.
The Test of Russian as a Foreign Language (TORFL) (Russian: Тест по русскому языку как иностранному, romanized: Test po russkomu yazyku kak inostrannomu or ТРКИ) is a contemporary test of Russian language for foreign citizens compliant with the best European quality standards.
Typequick Skill Evaluator, a fully-automated typing speed test, [23] was designed to evaluate new employees' competency with handling keyboards, while identifying staff in need of training [2] by monitoring each keystroke within a chosen period and scoring the test for both speed and accuracy according to the Australian Standard. [46]
In a speed typing contest ... These contests have been common in North America since the 1930s and were used to test the relative efficiency of typing with ...