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   🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 01:37:35 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   Love the fact that my new keyboard makes me aware of my typing speed. Apparently on long tests where I have the time to get going my typing speed is 147 WPM. This assumes im not putting in any effort to max out my typing speed, however even if i do i doubt id get it too much higher.

   #typing

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 01:46:54 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • marathon

     @marathon Yes, Thats the number I get when I intentionally try to avoid mistakes. I dont count spelling errors since they are intentional sinc ei cant spell and not a mistype. but if i mistype then i backspace it and it will adjust the WPM with a penalty.

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     marathon (marathon@social.freetalklive.com)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 01:46:55 JST marathon

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     @freemo Does that number allow for mistakes? That's pretty fast, even competent secretaries back in the day were considered excellent at 80 wpm. So you're exceptional!

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 01:52:48 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @marathon The errors are deducted. I am counting mistyping as errors, not misspelling because im trying to determine my typing speed accounting for accuracy, not my mastery of spelling. So misspellings that are intentional dont make sense to count.

     Obviously if i was trying to be a secretary this would be a bad measure as a secretary needs to know to spell... but since im measuring my ability more from a programmers perspective where spelling is less of an issue I'm ok with this.

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     marathon (marathon@social.freetalklive.com)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 01:52:49 JST marathon

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     @freemo Yeah but you have to deduct your errors to have a realistic number. On the best of days I can only acheive 80 WPM and I've been typing since 1973. That's with errors deducted btw.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 01:54:05 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @marathon To put it another way... if I choose to use words I know how to spell, and account for errrors, Id still be at 147. The WPM here accounts for errors and deducts for it (when i hit backspace)

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 01:55:06 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @marathon when I was younger I would have been able to beat the tying world record at the time. I just never bothered to do it.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 01:56:28 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @perfect_brains

     No, the firmware of the keyboard caclulates the WPM ont he fly, penalizes for errors (use of backspace and delete) and displays the WPM as a chart on the OLED of my keyboard including my maximum WPM over a specified period's average.

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     perfect brains (perfect_brains@social.freetalklive.com)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 01:56:29 JST perfect brains

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     keylogger?

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     Dr Keith Walker (steelfolk@qoto.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 02:23:39 JST Dr Keith Walker

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     @freemo I typed my PhD thesis to save money. It was in a mainframe with no formatting until it was printed. My speed was 52 wpm and it took forever.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 02:29:50 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • Dr Keith Walker

     @SteelFolk I suspect most people would be slower transcribing than they would be tying off the cuff.... That said I have always been an exceptional fast typist.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 05:14:06 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @hans

     I've certainly never bothered to care what speed my employees can type.

     But there is certainly an advantage to typing fast, you get work done faster even if typing isnt the bottleneck as you cant really do other tasks while your tying anyway.

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     Hans (hans@hubzilla.hopto.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2023 05:14:25 JST Hans

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     @🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 I never understood the need of typing fast. Once had an employer who asked me if that would be possible since he can type faster then I do. Asked him "But can you write code without errors? Or would you be willing to pay the extra debugging time needed once it was finished?"