Sitting around the office, my co-workers and I were reminiscing about white-out, correct tape, typewriters, mimeographs, early command-line computers. Our sad grades in typing class. This started an office meme/competition (the last one was the bloody penguins). Someone looked up an on-line typing test and off we went.
In high school, I got a C in Typing Class because my best score was 24wpm and my errors were many. While working as an office temp, I managed to get up to 40wpm. After starting to do computer work, it was up to 50wpm. I surprised myself by getting 62wpm with 100% accuracy. At 98% accuracy, I got up to 66wpm. I think LJ has helped with this improvement.
The best in the office was 87wpm with 98% accuracy. She has come down from over 100wpm from when she did office work.
I do like my co-workers at times like this.
Geez – I’ve slowed down… 60wpm w/ 100% accuracy… sigh.
Ah well… still not too shabby for a stay at home mom!
I typed slowly in high school. Then I got addicted to online communication. I spent a disturbing amount of time on our college instant message system. When you’re conversing in approximately real time, you want to type fast. I’m really anal about spelling, too, so I try to be accurate. Some of it has definitely faded, though.
That test is a fun distraction from work.