Top 10 Fastest Typist In The World

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Top 10 Fastest Typists in The World
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WHAT IS TYPING?
Before we start to go more into details about
world fastest typist, we would like to mention
what is typing and some facts about how difficult
is to be a typist. Typing is basically writing
or retype text (or some kind of text input). It
can be done on different was and different kind
of techniques mobile phone, typewriter,
laptop/keyboard, calculator.
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TYPING TECHNIQUES

• There are 5 main typing techniques used for
  typing services
• Touch typing
• Hunt and peck
• Hybrid
• Buffering
• Thumbing

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TYPING TECHNIQUES
Touch typing This technique is one of the main
standards techniques for accurate typing
services. Here typist is keeping focus on the
source copy and also typist wrists are not on the
typing surface.
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TYPING TECHNIQUES
Hunt and peck In this technique typist is having
constant visual contact with keyboard, not seeing
a screen or paper while typing.
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TYPING TECHNIQUES
Hybrid Significant number of typing styles can be
in so called hybrid style typing that is often
used for typing services online. This style is
combination of touch typing and hunt and peck
typing styles.
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TYPING TECHNIQUES
Buffering Buffering is also one kind of hybrid
typing. In this technique typist reads several
sentences from source and then memorize them and
type them at once.
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TYPING TECHNIQUES
Thumbing This technique came after 1980 year,
with all kind of touch screen kind of input
keyboards, where input of text is done with
thumbs.
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TYPING SPEED
In order to be better version of themselves,
typist are not only continuously developing new
typing techniques (also that are used for online
typing services), but also they are measuring
typing speed. Measure of speed is WPM word per
minute. Also there is set of rules to follow when
you are measuring someones typing speed in order
to make that measurement relevant.
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CHAMPION TYPISTS AND RECORDS IN TYPEWRITING
Now, we will go through a historical part of
typewriting. Also we will go through some of the
most famous and fastest typists in the world.
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CHAMPION TYPISTS AND RECORDS IN TYPEWRITING
This are 4 fastest typist of last century from
left, George Hossfeld, Stella Willins, Irma
Wright and Albert Tangora.
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CHAMPION TYPISTS AND RECORDS IN TYPEWRITING
Henry William Lockyer Digby, He was born on New
Zealand and his records were accomplished in
Australia.
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CHAMPION TYPISTS AND RECORDS IN TYPEWRITING
J.N.Kimball was for long period of time main
executive for organizing championships and
writing texts for typists.
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CHAMPION TYPISTS AND RECORDS IN TYPEWRITING
Margaret B. Owen, won 4 world titles and three
championships from 1915 to 1917. First one she
won in 1913.
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CHAMPION TYPISTS AND RECORDS IN TYPEWRITING
Emil Anton Trefzger won world title in 1914. He
was born in Peoria, Illinois, on 18.3.1888. and
died on 19.4.1961.
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CHAMPION TYPISTS AND RECORDS IN TYPEWRITING
In recent times, there are also marvelous
typists. Here are some of them

• Longest typing marathon Les Stewart
• Fastest typing on an electric typewriter Margaret
  Hamma

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CHAMPION TYPISTS AND RECORDS IN TYPEWRITING
Latest record was from Barbara Blackburn. She is
credited by the Guinness Book of Records (2005).
She is fastest English typist in the world.
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