21 Apr
2011
21 Apr
'11
1:36 p.m.
On 21 Apr 2011 at 15:36, Ethan Dicks wrote:
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 2:47 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin
at xenosoft.com>
wrote: > On Thu, 21 Apr 2011, Brian Lanning wrote: >> My mom was a
secretary. ?She had an IBM selectric. ?World's loudest >> typewriter.
?She could type 90wpm on that thing. ?Oh man, what a >> sound. It sat
on a foam mat to try to absorb some of the vibration. ?I >> used that
for my papers until I got an original IBM 5150 and my school >> got a
much of Apple 2Es. > > Rated top speed for the mechanism was 14.8
characters per second (about > 150 WPM). ?But a 150 WPM typist (yes,
I've met some!) would have bursts > substantially higher, and
selectrics would come apart.
It seems that if you want to set records, you wouldn't use a
Selectric, but rather an old IBM Electric:
"What?s the fastest typing speed ever recorded? The top speed ever
achieved by a typist, 216 words per minute stands as the record, set
by one Stella Pajunas in 1946 on an IBM electric. To give you an idea
of her accomplishment, sixty words per minute is considered good
professional speed. The record for top speed for over an hour of
nonstop typing is 149 words per minute, also set on an IBM machine."
..and I believe that the endurance record for typing is 276 hours,
but I don't know what the rules were.
--Chuck