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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. 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.

  4. Ultimate Typing Championship - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Typing - Wikipedia

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    Some notable [citation needed], records include 255 wpm on a one-minute, random-word test by a user under the username slekap and occasionally bailey, [20] 213 wpm on a 1-hour, random-word test by Joshua Hu, [21] 221 wpm average on 10 random quotes by Joshua Hu, [22] and first place in the 2020 Ultimate Typing Championship by Anthony Ermollin ...

  6. Steve Woodmore - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. How he did it: Meet the Salem man who set a new world record ...

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    The previous record for most burpee pull ups completed in an hour was held by Shawn Dobbs of Jacksonville, Florida, according to Guinness World Records. Vu's record has yet to be certified as the ...

  8. John Moschitta Jr. - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Speed typing contest - Wikipedia

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    Dutch National Championship in 1954. In a speed typing contest contestants compete to attain the highest accurate typing speeds. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] These contests ...