People Need Higher Standards

On kind of a whim (okay, I was reading a forum thread where people had started arguing over the necessity of touch typing), I decided to give Typingtest.com a spin, just to see what kind of speed I could achieve using the touch typing powers that were pounded into my head between 6th and 9th grade.

Well, on the "Test Instructions" test, I pulled off 85 WPM, and on "Tigers in the Wild," I managed 88. This was despite the fact that I was sitting in a horribly awkward position, and I haven't clipped my fingernails in a couple weeks.

Now, I've always considered myself a pretty average typist, as evidenced by the fact that when I did interview transcription at my internship, I had to slow down the recordings to keep them from getting ahead of me, and even then, it was hard to keep up. According to this thing, however, even my lamest typing effort is up to 144% above average.

Seriously? Are there really that many people who do that retarded "hunt and peck" bullshit instead of learning one of the most useful skills you can have in the Digital Age?

Wow.

UPDATE
I managed 104 WPM on this test, but it's just words and not sentences, and punctuation and capitalization tend to slow me down a lot, so...yeah.

For more accuracy, I clipped my fingernails, sat up straighter, tried "Test Instructions" again, and got 97. I'm going to go ahead and stick with that for now.

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