Life as a fast-typer

fairyofwind · Post by **fairyofwind** » 10 May 2008 16:31

LOL the text was very easy but I was so nervous on the EN that I kept making errors

fairyofwind · Post by **fairyofwind** » 10 May 2008 20:28

Admittedly the CZ text was very difficult so I can see why the Czechs were much slower this year than last year.

Post by **jeandid** » 10 May 2008 23:05

CONGRATULATIONS Daniel Chen !!!!!!!

You're the #1 of the world, the winner of Intersteno multi-language competition !!!

That's simply enormous

fairyofwind · Post by **fairyofwind** » 10 May 2008 23:51

Thank you!!!

i had wanted to type the russian too (at 250 cpm, not very good), but it is already may 11 in europe

Motsak · Post by **Motsak** » 11 May 2008 19:07

U r amazing guy! I want an autograph!
Next year, we'll do 700 on our own language? Ah ha, u'll aim 800

And personally, I'll try to type all the languages...

Well, see u later on MSN.

( The Turks were there! The Czechs will next year... )

Son · Post by **Son** » 14 May 2008 20:48

I've just noticed that Hakan Kurt, who placed first at Intersteno -> maternal language, with an amazing 807 cpm, has joined TypingZone / ZoneDactylo. Perhaps he'll stick around, things would get really interesting if he did

Post by **jeandid** » 14 May 2008 21:00

Mmmmh... he made only 107 wpm in English text, that's low... It makes a big difference between his score in Turkish on a 10-minute unknown text...

Motsak · Post by **Motsak** » 15 May 2008 11:08

J'aimerais trop que Helena s'inscrive sur Zone Dactylo, mdr! Enfin... Il n'y a pas la langue Tchèque donc je sais pas si elle serait première partout mais c'est quand même "la" plus rapide dans le monde!

955,10 CPM on thirty minutes... S*** her, she's famous!

fastermart · Post by **fastermart** » 26 Oct 2008 18:37

Your score: 442 keys per minute ~ 88 words per minute
Language/mode: en
Ranking: That was fast - you can still improve, though.
Comparison: 8% of 31962 registered TyperA users using this language have typed a better result; 92% have a lower or equal result.

first try

Minilek · Post by **Minilek** » 09 Jan 2009 04:17

Thanks jeandid for the fun game!

-Jelani

Damz · Post by **Damz** » 10 Jan 2009 09:55

Minilek wrote:Thanks jeandid for the fun game!

-Jelani

Wow, you did 150 wpm on the english text to grab the top spot on the ranking, and this after only one day? If you're legit, that's extraordinary!

fairyofwind · Post by **fairyofwind** » 10 Jan 2009 19:37

There's no doubt in my mind that my friend here at that *other* school is a faster typer than I am.

Minilek · Post by **Minilek** » 10 Jan 2009 21:39

Yes, I'm legit. Reading this thread, I'm now curious about this "intersteno" competition. Is it an official typing speed contest? Are there cash prizes (and if so, how does one compete?)?

Motsak · Post by **Motsak** » 10 Jan 2009 23:19

Yeah! It's a serious official competition

If u participate just to the international contest on Internet (every year in april/may), u haven't reward... (but personally, I received a medallion last year, for my third place in mother language ; three years ago, I had received a camera and two years ago, a MP3 player... by Intersteno French)
However if u also participate to the World Championship (every two years in a different city, next in august 2009 in Beijing, China), u can receive a cup and a medal by the Chinese Congress...
These rewards aren't extraordinary... But try to get in touch with the American Delegation of Intersteno? U'll have more informations.

Euh, u've tried English Ten-minutes text?
http://org.intersteno.it/page.php?id_pr ... xt=inglese

Try it and tell us how do u do

(score, errors...)
Are u aware that ur friend Dan Chen has won the contest (Multilingual). U have an excellent competitor ^^

Hm, last thing : have u MSN? Add me: motsak@msn.com

We'll talk about typing. I'll present u other typists.

Minilek · Post by **Minilek** » 11 Jan 2009 04:09

Motsak wrote:Euh, u've tried English Ten-minutes text?
http://org.intersteno.it/page.php?id_pr ... xt=inglese

Try it and tell us how do u do (score, errors...)

Ok, these are the results from my first attempt:

Errors: 8, CPM: 726.2, Score: 6862, %errors: 0.11

You can see a screenshot here: http://web.mit.edu/minilek/www/10mins.png.

So, I guess I have some practicing to do before I have a shot at winning intersteno. Stupidly, one of my errors was that my eyes completely missed some line, so I didn't type a whole line of text. I did that twice..the second time I noticed (after typing another line), so I backspaced pretty far back to fix it.