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  2. Speech tempo - Wikipedia

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    Various units of speech have been used as a basis for measurement. The traditional measure of speed in typing and Morse code transmission has been words per minute (wpm). However, in the study of speech the word is not well defined (being primarily a unit of grammar), and speech is not usually temporally stable over a period as long as a minute ...

  3. Ultimate Typing Championship - Wikipedia

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    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 prize. [1] Since then, the finals have gathered over 10 million views on YouTube. [2] In the 2020 edition, the final was also best of 3.

  4. Words per minute - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Typing - Wikipedia

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    The current fastest typist is 17 year old who goes by the username MythicalRocket, with a speed of 305 WPM for 15 seconds using QWERTY. [ 25 ] [ 26 ] Using a personalized interface , physicist Stephen Hawking , who suffered from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis , managed to type 15 wpm with a switch and adapted software created by Walt Woltosz.

  6. Steve Woodmore - Wikipedia

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    Steve Woodmore could rapidly articulate at a rate of 637 words per minute, [3] [4] [5] four times faster than the average human. [6] [7] Woodmore first realised his skills at rapid speech when he was seven years old. At school, he was asked by his form teacher to recite an 8-minute speech, as a punishment for his talkativeness. It took him only ...

  7. 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.

  8. Speed reading - Wikipedia

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    Skimming is a process of speed reading that involves visually searching the sentences of a page for clues to the main idea or when reading an essay, it can mean reading the beginning and ending for summary information, then optionally the first sentence of each paragraph to quickly determine whether to seek still more detail, as determined by the questions or purpose of the reading.

  9. Stenotype - Wikipedia

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    In order to pass the United States Registered Professional Reporter test, a trained court reporter or closed captioner must write speeds of approximately 180, 200, and 225 words per minute (wpm) at very high accuracy in the categories of literary, jury charge, and testimony, respectively. [1]