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The nine times world champion in typing, the engineer Helena Zaviačičová, won most of her World Champion titles with the G80-3000 from CHERRY. The title for the world championship for the fastest typist is awarded by the organisation Intersteno every two years. The first title was won by the several-times world champion from the Czech Republic in 1998 in Lausanne. The world championship is held every two years, most recently in Paris (2011), Beijing (2009), Prague (2007), Vienna (2005), Rome (2003) and Hanover (2001). The title contenders are currently preparing for the world championship in Ghent, to be held in July 2013. Zaviačičová has triumphed over and over again on the G80-3000, which is the most successful keyboard model from CHERRY to date. The world champion has now been honoured with a CHERRY Award for her successes.
Intersteno was founded by stenographers in 1887 in London. Notwithstanding the technical progress that has been made in recording text, there is still a competitive discipline in graphic shorthand, although participants today are usually tested on computer keyboard skills, as well as shorthand machines.
At the Intersteno world championship for typewriting, several hundred participants take part – in the preliminary qualifications in various country groups there are often several thousand. At the world championships in Rome in 2003, Zaviačičová typed for 30 minutes at a speed of 956 characters per minute. After deducting 100 strokes per error, the world record was set with 928 net strokes per minute. The second best performance by a wide margin was gained by Javier Nunez Hidalgo from Spain, followed by other world championship participants from the Czech Republic, Germany and Turkey.
Proven world champion keyboard: CHERRY G80-3000 with MX technology The special feature of the CHERRY G80-3000 is Gold Crosspoint contacts (MX technology) for the individual keys. These mechanical key modules are not only durable but bring decisive response benefits for frequent and fast typists, as well as gamers. Using different switching characteristics, the switching point is reached far more reliably than standard keyboards with rubber membrane or foil technology. The user senses the contact even before the module is actuated all the way and the fingers can hover briskly over the keys.
The reigning World Champion explains why she chose this keyboard from CHERRY: “The G80-3000 CHERRY is by far the best, fastest and most reliable keyboard that I can use to exceed the limit of 800 characters per minute. With special stenograph systems for PC keyboards (such as “Zavschrift”/Zavscript), even over 1,400 strokes per minute are possible, but with the classic PC keyboards CHERRY is the first choice.”
CHERRY Award for the world champion
Reason enough for CHERRY to honour this satisfied “customer”. Marketing Director Stefan Uebelacker met Helena Zaviačičová at the Czech plant Klášterec to present her with five G80-3000 keyboards and the Cherry Award as a special acknowledgement for her achievements. Her husband and trainer Jaroslav Zaviačič was also there, who developed the system of the ZAVSCHRIFT machine stenography with her.
URL：http://www.cherry.de/cid/press_1386.htm
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What mx switches does she use? What layout? Surely, at these levels they are not sticking to qwerty are they?
Also, 800 characters per minute doesn't seem that much. I think I have heard of several people at 120WPM and an average of 5-6 letters per word could be reasonable making it 600-720 characters per minute
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Looks like a MX Blue full size.
http://www.cherrycorp.com/english/keyboards/Office/G80_3000_MX/index.htm (http://www.cherrycorp.com/english/keyboards/Office/G80_3000_MX/index.htm)
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Cherry should have given her a tricked out G80. Clearly she could type 1000 characters per minute consistently if she had an aluminum case, mimic cable, TI spacebar, and a raindrop set. i mean it is obvious.
duh.
/s
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Cherry should have given her a tricked out G80. Clearly she could type 1000 characters per minute consistently if she had an aluminum case, mimic cable, TI spacebar, and a raindrop set. i mean it is obvious.
duh.
/s
Sean Wrona.... where are you??
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Cherry should have given her a tricked out G80. Clearly she could type 1000 characters per minute consistently if she had an aluminum case, mimic cable, TI spacebar, and a raindrop set. i mean it is obvious.
duh.
/s
What about mods, springs, O-rings, lube, and stickers?
A new set of clubs would dramatically improve my golf game.
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someone on Geekhack enter!!!
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It says her husband is her trainer...like what does he do exactly?
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It says her husband is her trainer...like what does he do exactly?
tells her to "TYPE FASTER!!!!!!"
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It says her husband is her trainer...like what does he do exactly?
maybe she records down every single word he says and when the need arises, she does this:
"you said you'll clean out the shed yesterday. I have proof!"
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What mx switches does she use? What layout? Surely, at these levels they are not sticking to qwerty are they?
Also, 800 characters per minute doesn't seem that much. I think I have heard of several people at 120WPM and an average of 5-6 letters per word could be reasonable making it 600-720 characters per minute
Her 928 characters per minute would be 185.6 words per minute. Sean Wrona has 189 on his typeracer account. But her's is more impressive because she maintained that over 30 minutes which is a lot harder to do compared to just short tests like on typeracer.
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What mx switches does she use? What layout? Surely, at these levels they are not sticking to qwerty are they?
Also, 800 characters per minute doesn't seem that much. I think I have heard of several people at 120WPM and an average of 5-6 letters per word could be reasonable making it 600-720 characters per minute
Her 928 characters per minute would be 185.6 words per minute. Sean Wrona has 189 on his typeracer account. But her's is more impressive because she maintained that over 30 minutes which is a lot harder to do compared to just short tests like on typeracer.
I'm sure sean can do 189 for 30mins, when he's done 165 for 5 hours.
And she's much older than Sean wrona... which means, by the time sean gets to her age.. He'll be totally m0ar beast than he is now.
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Damn that's fast. Highest I've seen in person was 120-130 (it was on a model m) and you could barley see the dudes fingers.
And she looks slow next to a good stenographer.
If you're in it for speed, look into steno.
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Damn that's fast. Highest I've seen in person was 120-130 (it was on a model m) and you could barley see the dudes fingers.
And she looks slow next to a good stenographer.
If you're in it for speed, look into steno.
pretty sure the bulk of this hobby is just materialism
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What mx switches does she use? What layout? Surely, at these levels they are not sticking to qwerty are they?
Also, 800 characters per minute doesn't seem that much. I think I have heard of several people at 120WPM and an average of 5-6 letters per word could be reasonable making it 600-720 characters per minute
Her 928 characters per minute would be 185.6 words per minute. Sean Wrona has 189 on his typeracer account. But her's is more impressive because she maintained that over 30 minutes which is a lot harder to do compared to just short tests like on typeracer.
I'm sure sean can do 189 for 30mins, when he's done 165 for 5 hours.
And she's much older than Sean wrona... which means, by the time sean gets to her age.. He'll be totally m0ar beast than he is now.
Mr. Wrona does actually have some Intersteno titles to his name as well (for online competitions). His best official results seems to be 839 strokes per minute (http://org.intersteno.it/page.php?id_primario=47&id_secondario=211&language=inglese&contest_id=82&teacher_id=&filter_nation=&age=all&classification_type=mother_tongue) (for reals they called it strokes per minute) over 10 minutes. Helena meanwhile has a keyboarding (official Intersteno terminology here) high score of at least 955,10 battute al minuto (http://org.intersteno.it/uploads/ClassificationsListRoma2003.pdf) (jokes (https://translate.google.fi/?hl=en&tab=wT#auto/en/battute) per minute) presumably over 30 minutes. Which is pretty awesome as the second-best score in the Intersteno competitions by anyone is 832,37 (http://www.intersteno.it/uploads/ClassificationsListVienna2005.pdf) characters per minute.
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His moustache is just so awesome. :D And respect for that record. Mine is 125WPM with browns on 10fastfingers.com, I think I could do 130+ with my ghetto reds I'm typing on just now if I get used to them for a few weeks. But around 190 and that for over 30 minutes.. holy **** :)
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What mx switches does she use? What layout? Surely, at these levels they are not sticking to qwerty are they?
Also, 800 characters per minute doesn't seem that much. I think I have heard of several people at 120WPM and an average of 5-6 letters per word could be reasonable making it 600-720 characters per minute
Her 928 characters per minute would be 185.6 words per minute. Sean Wrona has 189 on his typeracer account. But her's is more impressive because she maintained that over 30 minutes which is a lot harder to do compared to just short tests like on typeracer.
I'm sure sean can do 189 for 30mins, when he's done 165 for 5 hours.
And she's much older than Sean wrona... which means, by the time sean gets to her age.. He'll be totally m0ar beast than he is now.
From his website:
I have typed more conventional texts at a rate of over 160 wpm (800 cpm) over a ten minute period in English, and recently exceeded 170 wpm (850 cpm) over a fifty-minute period on hi-games.net, as mentioned below.
BTW I think he's mentioned somewhere that his results have been rather inconsistent recently.
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What mx switches does she use? What layout? Surely, at these levels they are not sticking to qwerty are they?
Also, 800 characters per minute doesn't seem that much. I think I have heard of several people at 120WPM and an average of 5-6 letters per word could be reasonable making it 600-720 characters per minute
Her 928 characters per minute would be 185.6 words per minute. Sean Wrona has 189 on his typeracer account. But her's is more impressive because she maintained that over 30 minutes which is a lot harder to do compared to just short tests like on typeracer.
I'm sure sean can do 189 for 30mins, when he's done 165 for 5 hours.
And she's much older than Sean wrona... which means, by the time sean gets to her age.. He'll be totally m0ar beast than he is now.
From his website:
I have typed more conventional texts at a rate of over 160 wpm (800 cpm) over a ten minute period in English, and recently exceeded 170 wpm (850 cpm) over a fifty-minute period on hi-games.net, as mentioned below.
BTW I think he's mentioned somewhere that his results have been rather inconsistent recently.
The fame finally got to him...
All the partying it up with scantily clad babes..
And all the exotic stimulants lowering his scores...
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BTW if you take a look at results from the competitions Wrona won, there were plenty of Turks and Czechs behind him. Most of those Czechs were in high school at the time.
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What mx switches does she use? What layout? Surely, at these levels they are not sticking to qwerty are they?
Also, 800 characters per minute doesn't seem that much. I think I have heard of several people at 120WPM and an average of 5-6 letters per word could be reasonable making it 600-720 characters per minute
Her 928 characters per minute would be 185.6 words per minute. Sean Wrona has 189 on his typeracer account. But her's is more impressive because she maintained that over 30 minutes which is a lot harder to do compared to just short tests like on typeracer.
I'm sure sean can do 189 for 30mins, when he's done 165 for 5 hours.
And she's much older than Sean wrona... which means, by the time sean gets to her age.. He'll be totally m0ar beast than he is now.
Did he also take this part into account? "After deducting 100 strokes per error"
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Mr. Wrona does actually have some Intersteno titles to his name as well (for online competitions). His best official results seems to be 839 strokes per minute (http://org.intersteno.it/page.php?id_primario=47&id_secondario=211&language=inglese&contest_id=82&teacher_id=&filter_nation=&age=all&classification_type=mother_tongue) (for reals they called it strokes per minute) over 10 minutes. Helena meanwhile has a keyboarding (official Intersteno terminology here) high score of at least 955,10 battute al minuto (http://org.intersteno.it/uploads/ClassificationsListRoma2003.pdf) (jokes (https://translate.google.fi/?hl=en&tab=wT#auto/en/battute) per minute) presumably over 30 minutes.
Wow, even Jim Gaffigan couldn't do that many jokes per minute!
Seriously, though, on a good day I can hit around 110 WPM, and people are crazy impressed when they see it. I can't even imagine 190 WPM sustained.
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Holy @#$@ that is fast. Seeing someone type >120 WPM already looks pretty impressive. What does 800 wpm look like? That is insane. It takes me about a full minute to spell her last name correct.
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Holy @#$@ that is fast. Seeing someone type >120 WPM already looks pretty impressive. What does 800 wpm look like? That is insane. It takes me about a full minute to spell her last name correct.
That is "characters" per minute.
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Holy @#$@ that is fast. Seeing someone type >120 WPM already looks pretty impressive. What does 800 wpm look like? That is insane. It takes me about a full minute to spell her last name correct.
That is "characters" per minute.
lol my bad. Still impressive. I thought there was something off with that figure XD
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Yeah, fastest words per minute anybody has got is ~375. On a stenotype.
Nowhere near 800.
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100 chars per minute???
Gosh, I can't do even 10 ...
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Crap, I should have entered those back when my hands were better. I used to average (yes, average) around 180-190WPM on M's. 100CPM is actually pretty low for me in normal conditions still though.
Let us take as an example this post. I say I type at around 135-150 WPM in normal conditions but what people don’t realize is that the words I use are particularly long, meaning the CPM rate is significantly higher. For example this entire run-on paragraph of fail was typed with an attempt at maximum speed in a little over 30 seconds.
The above part is 62 words - giving a WPM of around 104. But it's 341 characters, giving a CPM of around 682.
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Crap, I should have entered those back when my hands were better. I used to average (yes, average) around 180-190WPM on M's. 100CPM is actually pretty low for me in normal conditions still though.
Let us take as an example this post. I say I type at around 135-150 WPM in normal conditions but what people don’t realize is that the words I use are particularly long, meaning the CPM rate is significantly higher. For example this entire run-on paragraph of fail was typed with an attempt at maximum speed in a little over 30 seconds.
The above part is 62 words - giving a WPM of around 104. But it's 341 characters, giving a CPM of around 682.
The word in words per minute usually means 5 keystrokes.
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The word in words per minute usually means 5 keystrokes.
Yep, hence the example above. The average is considered to be 5 letters, 6 keystrokes (counting space of course) for WPM. Which is why for measures like these competitions, they go by CPS or CPM. It's a far more accurate measure of actual typing speed.
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She can type 50% more CPS than I can WPS!
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Did he also take this part into account? "After deducting 100 strokes per error"
If you make more than one error per hundred strokes, you reach zero, no? Well, I'd end up in negatives there...
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The word in words per minute usually means 5 keystrokes.
Yep, hence the example above. The average is considered to be 5 letters, 6 keystrokes (counting space of course) for WPM. Which is why for measures like these competitions, they go by CPS or CPM. It's a far more accurate measure of actual typing speed.
I say I type at around 135-150 WPM in normal conditions but what people don’t realize is that the words I use are particularly long, meaning the CPM rate is significantly higher.
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dat stache on the right