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  2. Words per minute - Wikipedia

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    With the onset of the era of desktop computers, fast typing skills became much more widespread. Typically, professional typists type at speeds of 43 to 80 wpm, while some positions can require 80 to 95 (usually the minimum required for dispatch positions and other time-sensitive typing jobs), and some advanced typists work at speeds above 120 wpm.

  3. Typing - Wikipedia

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    Typing. Typing is the process of writing or inputting text by pressing keys on a typewriter, computer keyboard, mobile phone, or calculator. It can be distinguished from other means of text input, such as handwriting and speech recognition. Text can be in the form of letters, numbers and other symbols.

  4. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing - Wikipedia

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    Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Released in late 1987 by The Software Toolworks, the program aimed to enhance users' typing skills through a series of interactive lessons and games. Mavis Beacon is an entirely fictional character, created for marketing ...

  5. Aphasia: What to Know - WebMD

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    Aphasia is a disorder that happens when damage happens to the language and speech parts of your brain. It affects your ability to communicate, but not your intelligence. The way your communication ...

  6. Speed typing contest - Wikipedia

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    Speed depends, then, on the phrase being repeated, a poor indicator of performance for everyday use. In the extreme, the phone could learn to predict "Serrasalmus" when typing just "Ser", but that would be extremely uncomfortable in normal circumstances ("ser" is the Spanish word for "being").

  7. Audio typist - Wikipedia

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    Audio typist. An audio typist is someone who specialises in typing text from a vocal source which they listen to. The original voice document is usually recorded onto microcassettes by someone dictating into a Dictaphone. The audio typist will have learnt to touch type at a high speed which means they can look at the monitor or keep an eye on a ...

  8. Standardized test - Wikipedia

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    The test taker chooses the correct answer from the list. Many critics of standardized testing object to the multiple-choice format, which is commonly used for inexpensive, large-scale testing and which is not suitable for some purposes, such as seeing whether the test taker can write a paragraph.

  9. Dyslexia - Wikipedia

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    Dyslexia, previously known as word blindness, is a learning disability ('learning difficulty' in the UK [6]) that affects either reading or writing. [1] [7] Different people are affected to different degrees. [3] Problems may include difficulties in spelling words, reading quickly, writing words, "sounding out" words in the head, pronouncing ...