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From: dmcintee@netxcom.UUCP (Dave McIntee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Real Time Handwriting Recognition
Keywords: Typing
Message-ID: <1124@netxcom.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jan 89 16:20:51 GMT
References: <83242@sun.uucp> <7801@boring.cwi.nl> <1059@ns.UUCP> <3871@ece-csc.UUCP>
Reply-To: dmcintee@netxcom.UUCP (Dave McIntee)
Organization: NetExpress Communications, Inc., Vienna, VA
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In article <3871@ece-csc.UUCP> jnh@ece-csc.UUCP (Joseph Nathan Hall) writes:
>In article <1059@ns.UUCP> ddb@ns.UUCP (David Dyer-Bennet) writes:
>>In article <83242@sun.uucp> rburns%master@Sun.COM (Randy Burns) writes:
>>...
>>that few people can write faster than 20 words a minute.
>>...
>>Most people who can type at all type at least 30-40 wpm.  Also, you can
>...
>
>Longhand is by far the slowest way to transcribe speech or text--no more than
>20wpm in general, although there are shorthand-like methods ("speed writing,"
>etc.) that can be useful but which are not generally legible.  I'd say 10
>wpm is average.
>
>A slow, inexperienced touch-typist can do 25-40 wpm.  60 wpm is adequate for
>secretaries who don't do a whole lot of typing.  80wpm is a nominal speed for
>secretaries (but probably optimistic).  Professional typists can do 90-120
>wpm.
>
>Human shorthand speeds range from 40-120 wpm, but this will vary a LOT
>...
>Machine shorthand speeds range from 80-100 wpm to over 200 wpm.  Court

And how fast do people speak?
-- 
Dave McIntee
NetExpress Communications, Inc.	  	Phone: (703)749-2380
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