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[31] [32] The following year, he again placed third at the next World's Championship Typewriting Contest on October 23, 1922, with a typing speed of 141 WPM. [33] On October 22, 1923, Tangora set the 60-minute typing speed world record at 147 WPM. After a rest period, he typed 159 words in a one-minute "sprint". [34]
On the ITV television show Motor Mouth on 22 September 1990, Steve Woodmore recited a piece from the Tom Clancy novel "Patriot Games" in 56 seconds, yielding an average rate of 637 words per minute, breaking the previous record of 586 wpm, set by John Moschitta Jr. [4] [9] Guinness World Records listed Woodmore as the world's fastest talker ...
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.
Born in New York City to an Italian-American family, Moschitta had been credited by Guinness World Records as the World's Fastest Talker, [1] with the ability to articulate 586 words per minute. His record was broken in 1990 by Steve Woodmore, who spoke 637 words per minute [2] [3] and then by Sean Shannon, who spoke 655 words per minute on ...
Two-time world record holder Tommy Vu didn’t realize his own strength until the COVID-19 pandemic. A small crowd saw his special abilities on Monday when he attempted the world record for most ...
She is listed in the Guinness World Records as the fastest-talking female, having broken the record twice. Capo set the current record on June 5, 1990 [3] at the Guinness Museum in Las Vegas, speaking at 603.32 wpm in 54.2 seconds. [4] She first broke the record speaking 585 words-per-minute (wpm) on Larry King Live on March 5, 1986. [4]
The first round consisted of a standard 574-word text in which Wrona defeated Bowen 163-110 wpm, setting an unofficial world record. The second round consisted of a more difficult text involving the majority of the keys on the QWERTY keyboard, in which Wrona defeated Bowen 124-79 wpm to win the Ultimate Typing Championship and a $2,000 first ...
Audiobooks are recommended to be 150–160 words per minute, which is the range that people comfortably hear and vocalize words. [16] Slide presentations tend to be closer to 100–125 wpm for a comfortable pace, [17] auctioneers can speak at about 250 wpm, [18] and the fastest speaking policy debaters speak from 350 [19] to over 500 words per ...