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  2. Barbara Blackburn (typist) - Wikipedia

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    Blackburn starred in a commercial for the Apple IIc, released in 1984, which offered a switchable Dvorak–QWERTY keyboard. [16] [10] [17] In the commercial, captioned as the "World's Fastest Typist", she explains how she achieved the Guinness World Record for fastest typist at barely 150 words a minute, yet she was able to type nearly 200 wpm on an Apple computer.

  3. Birdie Reeve Kay - Wikipedia

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    Birdie Reeve Kay, born Birdie Reeve (January 16, 1907 [1] – May 31, 1996 [2]), was an American champion typist who performed in the 1920s in vaudeville. She reached speeds of over 200 words, or 800 letters, per minute, and was billed as the "World's Fastest Typist".

  4. Albert Tangora - Wikipedia

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    Albert Tangora (July 2, 1903 – April 7, 1978) was an American competitive typist who was widely regarded as having the fastest typing speed on a typewriter. [2] Born in Paterson, New Jersey, Tangora began typing in 1916, entering typing contests the following year.

  5. Barbara Blackburn - Wikipedia

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    Barbara Blackburn may refer to: . Barbara Blackburn (actress) Barbara Blackburn (dog trainer) (1910–1988), TV personality and author Barbara Blackburn (typist) (1920–2008), American typist and writer, noted for her fast typing speed

  6. Noah Lyles is the world’s fastest man — thanks in ... - AOL

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    Team USA's Noah Lyles took the gold in the men’s 100-meter final at the Paris Olympics — by five thousandths of a second. Lyles, who won Sunday with a time of 9.784 seconds, came out just ...

  7. Words per minute - Wikipedia

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    As of 2019, the average typing speed on a mobile phone was 36.2 wpm with 2.3% uncorrected errors—there were significant correlations with age, level of English proficiency, and number of fingers used to type. [3] Some typists have sustained speeds over 200 wpm for a 15-second typing test with simple English words. [4]

  8. Longest, fastest, zaniest: Guinness World Records ... - AOL

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    The Guinness World Record researchers get many more records approved than they can fit in a single book. There are visits to history — pirate ships and shipwrecks — and pages devoted to record ...

  9. Typing - Wikipedia

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    The world's first typist was Lillian Sholes from Wisconsin in the United States, [1] [2] the daughter of Christopher Latham Sholes, who invented the first practical typewriter. [1] User interface features such as spell checker and autocomplete serve to facilitate and speed up typing and to prevent or correct errors the typist may make.