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From: gwills@maths.tcd.ie (Graham Wills)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Real Time Handwriting Recognition
Keywords: Typing
Message-ID: <202@maths.tcd.ie>
Date: 9 Jan 89 10:07:04 GMT
References: <83242@sun.uucp> <7801@boring.cwi.nl> <1059@ns.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwills@maths.tcd.ie (Graham Wills)
Organization: Maths Dept., Trinity College, Dublin
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In article <1059@ns.UUCP> ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet) writes:
>:faster than they can type. Good shorthand operators write faster
>:than *any* typists.
>
>Really?  I understood that one serious problem in passing a 20-words
>per minute morse code test was in writing down the words -- that is,
>that few people can write faster than 20 words a minute.
>

 A newly-trained secretary (3 mths training) can usually type at around
 40 w.p.m. and take shorthand at 80 w.p.m. I know of one sec. who has an
 official recorded time of over 200 w.p.m. Beat that with typing.


Graham W.
TCD, Ireland