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To you guys think you're fast typers, and why?

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To you guys think you're fast typers, and why?

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HamsterMachete@reddit

I used to be a 90+ wpm typer. I played a lot of text-based games online (Think Zork). You had to type fast or get killed. Now, I am a slow but proficient typer.
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Fuzzy_Pianist_9266@reddit

Learning to do it one handed was a great start
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MoridinXP@reddit

ICQ and many active conversations running simultaneously. *Uh-oh, Uh-oh, Uh-oh, Uh-oh* "Shit...must type faster!"
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AlwaysUseAFake@reddit

So much time on icq
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HandstandsMcGoo@reddit

I'm not great anymore but during my Diablo II days I was typing like a madman
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Trick-Session2388@reddit

We had very few computer games and no gaming consoles when I was growing up, but we did have Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing. I also took piano lessons. I pretty much blew everyone out of the water in the third grade computer lab when we were writing our journal entries. Once AIM came around, my parents said I sounded like a freight train on our living room computer.
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Jifeeb@reddit

Taking shit in Quake 2 is how I learned to type
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jasonrubik@reddit

You took it alright
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Jifeeb@reddit

Get rekt n00b
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Geronimojo_12@reddit

Because that quick brown cat jumped over that lazy dog so many damn times.
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blanketshapes@reddit

this is why your X game sucks
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Roscoe_P_Trolltrain@reddit

I believe there was a fox somewhere in the mix
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icanhaztuthless@reddit

But what did the fox say?
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larry1186@reddit

A-ding -ding -ding -ding -ding-a -ding
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0sqs@reddit

"Ring-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding! Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding! Gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!"
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Slippery-Pete76@reddit

And it was ‘jumps’ instead of ‘jumped’ - had to get every letter in the alphabet in there.
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interior_lulu@reddit

Cause Mavis Beacon told me so
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twobootsranch@reddit

What
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MCA2142@reddit

#OKAY
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EnvironmentalSound25@reddit

Yeah!
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jasonrubik@reddit

Is that Dave Chappelle?
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Ambitious_Jelly8783@reddit

Mavis Beacon. ![gif](giphy|Onz7Kbh3TlY6GVHp2q)
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FastWalkingShortGuy@reddit

My first serious job to support myself in college was as a word processor (yes, that profession still existed in the late 90s/early 00s) at a law firm. They had me take the typing test and I was pushing 110+ wpm. The interviewer was like, "That's incredible!" And my inner monologue said, "*Thanks, Mavis Beacon*."
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chase02@reddit

Same, my first job I was flown around the world to type. Thanks Mavis!
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Katerade44@reddit

I worked as a transcriptionist in a law firm and transcribing when I took Legal Secretary and Paralegal positions. My speed was nowhere near yours, though. 110 wpm?! Wow. Impressive.
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FastWalkingShortGuy@reddit

My junior high school typing teacher was a sadist. She wouldn't let us touch her keyboards without examining our fingernails first to make sure they were clean. If they weren't, we got sent to the nurse's office to clip our nails and brush under them before she would let us type. That said, she was brutally effective. I suspect everyone who survived her classroom could type that speed.
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Unable_Apartment_613@reddit

At my school the keyboards were covered in blacked out plastic so you couldn't see the keys except for A and J (the left most of the two set of home keys).
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Revolutionary_Gas551@reddit

My High School typing teacher was named Gloria Riffenbark. In order to pass typing class you had to pass a typing test with no less than 50wpm average and less than three mistakes. All of this on an old Windows 3.1 machine running Word Perfect. She sent me to the office once for using the mouse and not keyboard shortcuts (which you also had to memorize), although tbf she did tell me twice not to, haha. I recently went back to college, and on my first paper in an advanced English Comp, the professor noted I double-spaced between sentences, and I shouldn’t do that on future assignments. I told her that I was very concerned that if I didn’t double-space between sentences, my high school typing teacher would manifest from the 5th layer of hell and drag my soul to hell for all eternity. I told her she could either take points off for it, or realize that I’m not ever going to NOT double-space between sentences and let it go. She let it go. 🤣🤣🤣
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Gr00mpa@reddit

I just looked her up. She passed away in 2019.
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FastWalkingShortGuy@reddit

YES. When I heard that a double space after a sentence was no longer standard, I was like, "That's fine, you go tell Mrs. Brown that, I'm not getting slapped again." And God help me if I used caps lock to begin a sentence instead of using shift. I still have the scars.
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catjuggler@reddit

Thiiiiiis- 9th grade typing class. Mavis beacon. Taking a typing test with a trash bag over your hands. Do they teach typing still?
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Redneck-ginger@reddit

Your 9th grade typing class was on a computer? Lucky! Both my middle and high school typing classes were on typewriters. I am still traumatized from getting halfway thru an assignment, only to realize i was using pica and should have been using elite and having to start all over.
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catjuggler@reddit

They had converted the typewriter room!
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GonnaTry2BeNice@reddit

I think this is the first post on this thread where I feel lost. I don’t know what a MUD is, I’ve never heard of Mavis Beacon, and I barely recall using AIM
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burf@reddit

Hey everyone let’s point and laugh at the cool kid who didn’t take typing classes or play text games when only nerds used to do it
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GonnaTry2BeNice@reddit

I was never cool, dude. I was a national merit scholar.
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Ambitious_Jelly8783@reddit

Hate to say it..... you may be a couple of years too late.
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bokehtoast@reddit

I put in some serious time at home with Mavis Beacon lol Now most of my communication is through my phone and my mobile typing never recovered from the loss of tactile buttons
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amertune@reddit

Mavis beacon got me to about 45 wpm, taking the typing class in college a couple of times and putting serious effort into it took me past 100 wpm. I have no need or see desire to go faster, as most typing I do is far more limited by thinking time and creativity than it is by my finger speed.
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burf@reddit

Even 100 is crazy fast. My top end is around 80 and even that feels fast enough to get the job done in most cases. If someone is at 60+ and accurate, they’re in good shape.
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Ambitious_Jelly8783@reddit

The car bug splat game... that's what did it.
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questions6486@reddit

It was Typing of the Dead for me lol
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JustALvlOneGoblin@reddit

MULTI USER DUNGEONS FOR THE WIN!
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withbellson@reddit

Mavis Beacon annoyed me because it penalized you for realizing you’d made a typo and hitting the backspace button. I type 100wpm when I can correct on the fly.
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Adventurous_Pin_344@reddit

Between Mavis Beacon and Mario Teaches Typing, I am unstoppable.
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caryn1477@reddit

Yes, Mario Teaches Typing!!!
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leeloocal@reddit

![gif](giphy|QCEyGJBqBh5sBafVNz)
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traxxes@reddit

This and "All The Right Type" were constantly drilled into us from late elementary to junior high, they were literally set as full periods that we'd sit in the computer room and just do that for an hour that I can remember.
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ghunter21@reddit

3k MUD - I remember thinking I was the shit when I got my typing up to 96 WPM.
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MarZZZraM@reddit

No...because I have a 22 year old daughter who is a computer science and engineering major...I can't compete—never could—and I'm okay with that 🤡 🤣
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tomqvaxy@reddit

Nope. Never took typing
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mfjonesisdead@reddit

AIM and Everquest had me typing 100wpm+ before the end of middle school. Typing classes were such an easy A.
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Tiervexx@reddit

Came for this! I had keyboarding classes in 4th grade, but Everquest is what really made me FAST, haha.
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Elenakalis@reddit

Everquest and my guild's irc channel for me. We tracked DKP in game and CKP (conversation kill points) in the circle channel. Nothing ever killed the conversation for long though.
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Greymeade@reddit

EverQuest for me too!
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RinnelSpinel@reddit

It was Ultima Online for me.
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helikophis@reddit

Yeah I’m wicked fast. It’s not just AIM though - it’s text based gaming (specifically, the Discworld MUD). Fast typing is the difference between living and dying!
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power_wolves@reddit

Gemstone 4 and Dragonrealms here. Plus some Aardwolf MUD.
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RaygunMarksman@reddit

Yo! Dragonrealms was my home turf. I was a ranger.
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the-cookie-momster@reddit

Empath checking in. If you need anything let me know but otherwise I'm foraging for mech lore.
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RaygunMarksman@reddit

Empaths saved my ass so many times after a hunting outing gone wrong. That was really a pretty cool implementation of a healing class where they had to take on the wounds of whoever they were healing.
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the-cookie-momster@reddit

Agreed! I have never really seen an implementation of that kind of gameplay that was as compelling. I remember hearing about empaths that killed creatures and lost their ability to heal and it was shocking that the game would actually _do_ that. Going to the empath lounge in the guild and healing our wounds together, players with stumps for arms and sharing strategies to tend to catastrophic wounds and teaching others was a fascinating for role playing and storytelling as well.
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BlankSlate59@reddit

\*Double checking to make sure I didn't make this post last night\* -- Hmm, I'm still not convinced this isn't somehow my post. But jokes aside, yes, great games!
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Sibshops@reddit

If I remember correctly, Aardwolf was the primary class secondary class one?
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the-cookie-momster@reddit

DragonRealms, Xena and Hercules, the Weave (wheel of time), GodWars, Threshold, became an imm on Towers of Jadri, and eventually worked on my own DikuMUD too. Great times. I miss MUDs all the time. But I am a professional game designer now so I incorporate those gameplay feelings in my work wherever i can.
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orielbean@reddit

Yep, Zork and Sierra games for me!
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5erif@reddit

`move rug` Well I'll be damned. `open trap door`
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FinishingMyCoffee1@reddit

I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that Typing of the Dead actually worked for me
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bikeonychus@reddit

My husband actually worked on the remake of that! I think it might still be available on Steam?
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FinishingMyCoffee1@reddit

Omg it is! There goes getting anything done today
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Searchlights@reddit

We'ah both wicked fahken fast, kid
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LakeSolon@reddit

The text based PvP from the 90s had something I’ve been chasing ever since.
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onamonapizza@reddit

Same with AOL RPG chat rooms :Snow flutters upon the floor of the inn as he saunters in with a brooding disposition:
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RaygunMarksman@reddit

That was intense. All the possibilities but the wrong combo of words (actions) could doom you.
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theUmo@reddit

nog
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Pocusmaskrotus@reddit

Leisure Suit Larry made me a faster typer.
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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

Kings Quest II for me... "STAB DRACULA IN HEART WITH STAKE"
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hsox05@reddit

This is real. The early ones that didn't pause when you started typing, if you couldn't type fast you were done for. Even typing "swim" when you fall in the water
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Competitive_Ad_8215@reddit

Aw this all reminds me of my best friends from elementary school. He was so big into Sierra Games! I haven’t talked to him in decades.
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Revolutionary_Gas551@reddit

Fun Fact: ChatGPT will play all of those old text-based games. 👍
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73-68-70-78-62-73-73@reddit

Oh? How's that?
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Revolutionary_Gas551@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/yc9a8u6xr6yf1.jpeg?width=1125&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7361646206826b141a81d95d9ed72ef8cc611f3b
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platinumperineum@reddit

Perverts unite!
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SnowMission6612@reddit

With one hand or two?
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Bahariasaurus@reddit

It's also how I learned to spell. But I ended up adopting the English spellings. Eg. armour
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EggsceIlent@reddit

A lot of my friends and acquaintances when texting are always like woah woah man how do you text that fast etc. A real good close friend I actually dial it back like 50%. And I make mistakes still so if I was *perfect* wooo that would be crazy. *Shrug*. I still remember computer lab and those plastic covers they'd make us put over our keys. Sure I can type no look now, but I still do most times. And yeah we brought in games on floppies to play at the end of class
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OneTwoThreePooAndPee@reddit

I went into typing class in 9th grade already knowing how to type about 60wpm hunt and peck because of MUD's, by the end of the semester it was 110-120wpm standard typing.
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HostilePile@reddit

MUDs are how I got my typing to the next level as a teen.
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rezznik@reddit

Jup, MUDs and loooots of chatting on AIM and ICQ.
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bahaki@reddit

Man, I haven't thought about MUDs in so long. I was never into it, but I used to use a MUD client to make bots in ichat servers. Can't recall the name of the program.
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CanadianSpectre@reddit

iChat... ![gif](giphy|3owzW1VPVGtiFJvxQI|downsized)
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RaygunMarksman@reddit

Yeah, a MUD is how my typing skills maxed out. Gotta be on your game typing those commands if you wanna be a pimp daddy.
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HalfFrozenSpeedos@reddit

I'm not as fast as I was before concussion around a decade and a half ago. Getting close but still not quite there yet.
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MLDaffy@reddit

RavenMUD here checking in!
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BlueSundown@reddit

ShadowMUD! 
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kingrat1@reddit

Ditto, I'd been typing off and on through the 90s but being on that mud really sped things up - to the point it helped me get a job at one point! Not so much now, though...
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helikophis@reddit

I’m honestly where I am today in part because of that. I started out as a typist (they were still a thing hah!) and gradually worked my way up through the company. Never thought a random part time typist job to help me through grad school would lead to a career I’d still be in in my 40s, but here I am I guess.
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Roscoe_P_Trolltrain@reddit

Crossroads and MajorMud for me!
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HopelesslyHuman@reddit

LotR MUD here, but same idea.
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sweeneyty@reddit

![gif](giphy|tBARTh0PZ6XCMlVEhi) same AustinMudd
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ntgcleaner@reddit

Same, but my game of choice was counterstrike when it was a half life mod. Can't talk shit when you're dying. Got a type fast
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Possible-Tangelo9344@reddit

I quit band in middle school, and the only elective was computer typing class. I ended up in it both semesters, supposed to be one semester. I think at my peak I was typing like 114wpm with about 97% accuracy.
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Sad_Entertainment758@reddit

I type slow around 40 wpm. I also don’t know my right and left, but I know port and starboard. I had typing class in middle school and it didn’t matter, my brain just works differently.
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helper619@reddit

Computer lab teacher yelling at us.
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ExpressDevelopment41@reddit

I thought I was cool growing up and scraped all the letters off the family computers keyboard.
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Crans10@reddit

Playing wow back in the day really sped up my typing. Trying to kill a dragon and maintain multiple conversations at once does tend to force you to type faster.
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marcuslattimore21@reddit

I can use backspace quickly enough to fix grammatical errors before pressing enter.
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linemanshandset@reddit

I took touch typing lessons when I was like 12. These days my typing speed is still likely above average, but I don't think anyone is really amazed by how fast I type anymore. When I was in grade school I was almost always, if not always the fastest typer in the class after mastering touch typing.
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ApatheistHeretic@reddit

I would outpace my modem at times on the BBS.
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Boomerang503@reddit

I got college credits in 8th grade because of my fast typing.
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WheelLeast1873@reddit

I'm fast but error prone as fuck so that slows me down a lot. Most used key is backspace for me
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neogrinch@reddit

I'm an ok typer. and ya, AIM/Yahoo Messenger/ICQ helped! I play Nitrotype sometimes, and I average about 95wpm, my top score is 127wpm.
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Epicardiectomist@reddit

A....S....D....F....SPACE....J....K....L...SEMI....SPACE All that droning from the typing teacher led to one of the most useful skills I've ever learned. I can fucking fly from the home position.
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WestBeachSpaceMonkey@reddit

Nope, Bc I couldn’t type 90 words a minute to pass high school typing class.
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tacitjane@reddit

Yes, typing was the first part of computer class. Yep, I'm old-ish. One could test-out if you were fast enough. Half of a semester off. Then the real fun began. I'd send random batch files to our teacher during class.
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AlchemistMustang@reddit

Very fast. I do a lot of documentation. But LiveJournal for a decade every day really kicked it into high gear.
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The_OtherGuy_99@reddit

I was a hunt and peck guy through high school and college. When I went for my master's it was learn how to type or flunk out.
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New_Needleworker_473@reddit

I type 75wpm. It's average for most people I work with. I am a licensed therapist - lots of EHR. It's also a skill I use anytime I need extra money or been between jobs. I get hired on the spot when they realize my typing speed and accuracy. 😁
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MothyBelmont@reddit

I’m a receptionist. It’s my job to type fast.
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DHammer79@reddit

My name is Ty Pinfasta for a reason.
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RockShowSparky@reddit

About 70wpm on a proper keyboard. Not that fast, but faster than average I’d bet. 
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tiredhippo@reddit

Home row, baby
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LordLaz1985@reddit

Last test was 82 wpm. I spent a TON of my youth on forums.
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TheDevil-YouKnow@reddit

I think I'm a fast typer due to everyone around me inside of workplaces yammering on about how fast I type. I think there are more people catching up to the speed, but I've heard I type fast on both touch screens and an analog keyboard. One time someone asked me if I'm actually typing words to someone I was texting, or just slapping my thumbs on my phone for the fun of it. That one got me.
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Glum-Combination3825@reddit

i used to be. i dont feel that way now because i'm slower than i used to be... not enough use. but from seeing plenty of other people, i still feel comfortable that i'm well above average.
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levioh_snap@reddit

My kids always accuse me of just mashing the keyboard, and are continually astounded when they see I’ve actually typed something that makes sense. Chatting on the BBS, ICQ, MSN Messenger.
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Plane_Chance863@reddit

BBS for me as well. I only had thirty minutes to reply to all my messages.
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_SmashLampjaw_@reddit

Similar story. My kids asked me how I remembered where all the keys were and how I knew to spell all the words. They were amazed when I told them that if you've been touch typing for long enough, you don't think about either of those things. Your fingers just make the words.
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levioh_snap@reddit

So true! At my office, someone recently remarked that I need a new keyboard. I asked why. They said because all the letters have faded off, it must be so hard to use. I hadn’t even noticed.
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elektrik_noise@reddit

My husband always says: "What are clackity clacking at" bc he hears how fast I type lol. I haaaaate having to send texts on my phone and do prob 90% of sending texts on my synced macbook. I will avoid answering non-essential texts when I'm away from my laptop bc I can't stand being able to type what I want with only a short lag as I'm more or less thinking it. AIM and MSN Messenger fights. 100%. Taught me more about typing than the stupid cardboard boxes in the computer lab could ever.
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Sanitarium0114@reddit

Yahoo chat rooms before they became bot holes. And the much lesser known Napster chat room.
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bikeonychus@reddit

Early MMOs. My dad wouldn't let us get broadband Internet until my late teens, and set a 30 minute timer on dial-up which was enough time to click through about 3 webpages.
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BasicReputations@reddit

Keyboarding/typing class provided the foundations.  Computer chats provided the practice and motivation.
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Usual-Bag-3605@reddit

Last time I was tested, I average about 120 wpm on a standard QWERTY keyboard. As for why, in school I typed about the quick brown fox (that) jumps over the lazy dog so many times I could do it with my eyes closed, then spent over a decade as an IT specialist who dabbled in computer programming.
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RedSolez@reddit

Mavis Beacon enabled me to learn how to type 100 wpm, which in turn landed me a job in college as a transcription for $11/hour when the minimum wage was $5.50.
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JimmeeJanga@reddit

My last test was 98wpm, I blame icq and msn.
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usernames_suck_ok@reddit

I'm the fastest two-finger typer you'd ever see if you could.
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_jjkase@reddit

I sat next to a hunt-and-peck typer in keyboarding class in high school, and he could hit 75 wpm He may have failed the test where they put cardboard blockers above the keys that forced us to touch type
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Unable_Apartment_613@reddit

If he's going that fast he's not hunting. He's now a memorized and Peck
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Goblin_Eye_Poker@reddit

I had a teacher that typed with 4 fingers (2 on each hand) and could hit 125 wpm consistently on a Mac keyboard with a wobbly space bar.
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Unable_Apartment_613@reddit

An actual typing class in 5th grade where I learned the home keys. Followed by AIM. I also type for a living writing sports for a Small Town newspaper. I had to type up a story in a press box in front of some students the other day and they were absolutely baffled by my speed and accuracy. Felt kinda good.
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joebusch79@reddit

Nope. I’m decent for a 46 year old because I use keyboard regularly. But after watching my 18 year old type something up, it’s clear they’ve been doing it from the get go.
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Peachesandcreamatl@reddit

Before I developed multiple sclerosis I typed 118 words per minute. I worked in the legal field and typed with ease :-/
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TrixieLaBouche@reddit

Because I took actual typwriting lessons in school. On an actual typewriter not a computer and have several RSA Qualifications in it. Because straddling technology is definitely Xennial
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Competitive_Ad_8215@reddit

I took the typing course in high school to grab an easy 1/2 elective credit. Turns out I actually learned something in that class. I’m a decent typist.
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ammodramussavannarum@reddit

Mavis Beacon
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Scott_R_1701@reddit

When you had type messages in Counterstrike before Roger Wilco and integrated voice messaging, you got really good at typing REALLY fast.
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GinchAnon@reddit

yeah I was shit at typing in school. arguing with people .... and other things... on AOL definitely built the foundation of my being able to type well now.
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BossRoss84@reddit

90 gwpm. Not bad.
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Gr00mpa@reddit

I had a typing class in middle school. I don't know what my WPM is, though. I want to say maybe 70? I don't think I've done a test since middle school.
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jailasauraa@reddit

Yep.... Type writing class, those fake ass VTech "Laptops", AND Mavis Beacon....
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Bacch@reddit

Regularly writing huge political science essays while maintaining 2-4 AIM conversations simultaneously when the due date is less than 12 hours away.
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Miami_Mice2087@reddit

it started with AIM and trillian, yeah. then i did transcription online and i got up over 200 wpm.
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ladyeclectic79@reddit

Used to play MUDs on Telnet when I was in high school. Started out on text-based games Gemstone III on AOL, moved to MUDs (the one I loved was called “Entropy” but most followed the same basic map). You had to be quick typing w these, although with a bit of old school “coding” you could make shortcuts where one keystroke set up a long chain of commands to move you to a specified area. But yeah. Text-based games played at home late at night easily tripled my 7th grade typing ability.
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Current_Poster@reddit

Last time I got clocked I was at 90 WPM. That was... okayish for someone who wasn't a dedicated typist or stenographer or something, last time that I checked. Is it, now?
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FeelTheWrath79@reddit

Because of this app, i used to think in typing.
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BethKnowsBetter@reddit

My mother made me take a typing course at 7. On a typewriter. Also I’m a writer- soooo, that probably helps.
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Confident-Lead4337@reddit

![gif](giphy|13GIgrGdslD9oQ)
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LooksLikeAWookie@reddit

A friend and I got into friendly speed competitions during computer class back in high school. Went back and forth on wins, but the crazy thing is he henpecked that fast. I can still bust out 100 wpm if I want to. Did a job where pt 1 of the interview was typing speed, which I aced. Part 2 was spelling & grammar. I was not called back.
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porschephille@reddit

I was taught on an electric typewriter in junior high. There was no way to remove errors, so I got really good at typing.
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el_pablo@reddit

Typewriting classes in HS. Never thought that would be useful at 13 yo.
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flumia@reddit

Same. I continued typing class all the way through high school thinking it was a throwaway class. Turns out it's the one skill I get the most value out of every day of my life
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Insomniac_80@reddit

Then the internet came!
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OhkokuKishi@reddit

Took the last typing class in school that used typewriters. Mechanical keyboards are nice but nothing yet beats the feel of a typewriter.
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Cool_Dark_Place@reddit

Same here, when I was in 9th grade. And the computers all had daisy-wheel printers.
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Weasel_Town@reddit

When I was in school, career-minded young women were still specifically told *not* to learn to type, “because you’ll be pigeonholed as a secretary.” But my parents said “no, in the 21st century, everything is going to be on computers, and you’ll need to know how to type”. They insisted I enroll in keyboarding class. And it has taken me far!
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LackingUtility@reddit

I took a typewriting class in HS, but then got a freelance job doing transcriptions for medical offices and audio producers. And $20/hr was nothing to sneeze at for a kid in the 90s.
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jabber1990@reddit

The last time I was tested, I could do 60gwam, Im a little out of practice because ive used a different keyboard and done less overall typing but I imagine its like riding a bike
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vequinox@reddit

That dang lobster chasing my cursor permanently scarred me. Typing of the Dead kept me sharp (and a proofreading job at a publisher.)
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lonely_nipple@reddit

They tried to teach us in middle school... I just got real good at peeking under the flimsy cardboard shield when the teacher wasn't looking. It wasn't until discovering MMOs - specifically EverQuest - that I learned to *really* type. Turns out when you're casting an 8 second heal, you can cram a lot of yelling at the DPS for standing in fire into 8 seconds with some practice. And now I'm roughly 95wpm, which isn't the fastest, but it's better than all but a few coworkers none of whom are younger than me.
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ScaryTransbian84@reddit

Oregon Trail. I had touch typing 1 and 2 in 7th grade. If you completed the days assignments early, you could play OT. Monochrome green. I don’t think I ever floated my wagons down that final river but boy can I type. That and Final Fantasy XI online helped….a ton.
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a_solid_6@reddit

Because Typer Shark.
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thelonghauls@reddit

Maybe not fast. But did you mean to type “Do” up at the top there? If so, I would suggest slowing down and proofreading for sure.
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Snorgcola@reddit

IRC in the 90s made me into the 70wpm+ touch typist I am today.  Granted, some characters are occasionally hard to find - but definitely not the forward slash.
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SnowMission6612@reddit

IRC for me, too. When I was in high school, I decided to teach myself Dvorak (still use it primarily to this day), and IRC was what forced me to practice it. At first I just knew the letters "a" and "h" and slowly expanded out into other letters. IRC was great motivation, because if you didn't respond fast enough, the channel would have moved on to another topic and you lost your chance.
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FidgitForgotHisL-P@reddit

100% this for me too You learned to type fast in irc channels or you never got to stay in the conversations because everything was flying by too fast!  I transitioned form hunt-and-peck to proper typing entirely for irc, being able to do school work faster was just a happy bonus lol
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tavikravenfrost@reddit

By now, I'm sure we've all heard the thing about us fixing computers for our parents and our children because we hit the sweet spot in time for understanding how the technology works. I've noticed that we seem to be in a similar sweet spot with typing. Before I started working from home, it was always older and younger people commenting on my typing speed at the office, never anyone around my age: "Man, I wish I could type as fast as you!'
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m0h3k4n@reddit

The fastest typers I know were morpg traders.
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Renzieface@reddit

I got Mavis Beacon in HS and chat rooms and messengers in college. I can type like the WIND.
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BBallsagna@reddit

Does anybody remember paws? That was the typing “game” we had in computer class
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selftaughtgenius@reddit

ICQ, IRC, and having a blog before that was a word. These were the beginnings of typing like a motherfucker. I “taught myself” how to touch type and I am definitely fast though I don’t do it “right” and I absolutely make mistakes, but I’m the quickest and most efficient typist I know of amongst friends and (current and former) colleagues.
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Pat_Hand@reddit

MSN in highschool made me type, then i worked in a call center and i learned to type and talk at the same time. Now I can type what I think I would say faster than I can say it.
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annaoceanus@reddit

I was super competitive in typing class and really wanted to be at the top of the chart for accuracy and speed. It paid off! Fast typer and appropriately use the home row keys like a boss
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B4SSF4C3@reddit

Rookies. I can blind type on my cell phone keyboard. Doing this comment within looking, and leaving it however it looks!
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B4SSF4C3@reddit

Duck yeah, wasn’t sure that would work haha
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jackofallsomething1@reddit

Key boarding. I was okay at 85 but damn that class
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EstablishmentLevel17@reddit

(almost) 42 years old and had a computer (apple IIe) in my bedroom in elementary school. I knew where all the keys were before we were taught homerow typing on third grade. It came naturally.
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WhysAVariable@reddit

Yes, because I took a typing class in junior high and the teacher really didn’t like me specifically for some reason. Everyone looked at their hands but she singled me out for it and would tape a piece of paper over my keyboard so I couldn’t look at what I was doing. No Mavis Beacon for me. It worked though. I can type fast as hell. If someone gave me a blank keyboard I could tell you what every key is. Thanks Mrs Graff, you mean bitch.
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VoidOmatic@reddit

I'm in the top 1% according to most typing sites. Mine was from having to lead 72 man raids in EverQuest via text.
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Soggy_Porpoise@reddit

20 years of programming remote work and chatting with coworkers will do that for you.
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juggalojedi@reddit

130 or so through novel writing and then MUD coding. Haven't clocked myself in a while, i've probably fallen off a bit
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DenverBroncos_Fan@reddit

I thought I was fast until I watched my wife type.
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paisleymanticore@reddit

I had access to a computer at 13 and took typing at 15 in HS on a typewriter, I regretted not taking keyboarding, it was a half year class and I wouldn't have had to learn how to write open punctuation business letters with citations which I would never need in life. I broke my wrist and ended up dropping it, but not before learning to type thankfully My numpad skills are op due to hours upon hours of playing Nethack. My typing is 110+ but the older I get the more letters I transpose letters (on top of now sometimes randomly typing words I didn't mean to if my ADHD kicks in). It's fast due to BBS's and early online chat rooms and my inability to not write long-winded paragraphs even then. It used to freak out my coworker when he'd be talking and I'd be writing every single word he said as he spoke
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fromthedarqwaves@reddit

![gif](giphy|13GIgrGdslD9oQ)
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drrj@reddit

I have an advanced degree, eventually you’ve just spent so much time at a keyboard it’s like an extension of your hand.
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Any_Pickle_9425@reddit

I’m 120wpm and it’s all because of AOL chatrooms and AIM
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IsThataNiner@reddit

Same!
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Hikikomori_Otaku@reddit

115wpm
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manfredpanzerknacker@reddit

Everquest made me learn to type fast…
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catjuggler@reddit

Mavis beacon teaches typing
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Anarch-ish@reddit

One of the first headtrips I had involved AIM. I was typing, talking, and texting with one girl and we had three completely separate conversations of varying intensity. What a strange time.
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Smokeythemagickamodo@reddit

Yeah I’m fast but choose not to be. Many years of typing with friendos in the interwebs
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SlimyPurpleMeteor@reddit

Started playing typing games on my friends’ PC in the early 90s. Caught on quick and increased my speed drastically in a short period of time. Then I took 2 years of typing in junior high on actual typewriters. I also spent countless hours in trivia rooms on IRC which required wicked fast responses. By the time I had my first IT job, I was frustrated at how slow every one else typed and that nobody really cared or paid attention to WPM skillz 😆
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scrotanimus@reddit

Before AIM I was just on AOL. I forced myself to learn how to type with all my fingers because I wanted to type faster. Never took a keyboarding class; majored in Computer Science.
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LizF0311@reddit

Because I played piano as a child. And also my mom made us learn to type with Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing before it was even a school class.
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Cmd3055@reddit

Around 2010 I started a part time job for a small rural town. A few days later I’m sitting in my office, keyboard clicking away while I’m  typing up a report. At some point I look up and realize the mayor, city secretary and police chief are standing at my door. Apparently, they were had never seen a man who could type proficiently.  
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literanch@reddit

I used to. Not anymore though. I haven’t typed on a keyboard 2 days in a row since covid.
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0sqs@reddit

Middle of 4th grade for me, winter break 1995, they removed everything from a room in the library, and set up monochrome PCs with like 7 different typing programs. We went from one semester continuing to learn cursive to coming back in January only to see that abandoned in favor of learning to type. That shit was wild, but I feel like it's where this all started for me. I think we installed AIM after getting cable internet in 1997. Which definitely improved my typing speed at the time.
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Strange_Airships@reddit

I’m absurdly fast and I can simultaneously hold a conversation while maintaining eye contact. This is half computer class in the early 90s and half dialup chat rooms.
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Greymeade@reddit

Spending most of my waking hours between the ages of 13 and 17 playing EverQuest, pre-voice chat. I type 130-140wpm.
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RadTimeWizard@reddit

Yes, thanks to aol chat rooms, back when they were the wild west. I got asked to cyber by adults once or twice a week as a middle schooler, which was pretty fun.
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superluminal@reddit

My mom *insisted* I take keyboarding (which i thought was sooooo dorky) as an elective in junior high, so I learned there. But I'm so glad I listened to her because it turned out to be a really valuable skill to have through school and in my career. The bonus was I lived in hot-ass Bakersfield, California and keyboarding was in the air conditioning, so I learned to love computer-based work.
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nicunta@reddit

Between my typing teacher and mIRC chat rooms, I learned to type pretty fast. My younger co-workers say it freaks them out when I type while turned sideways, talking to them.
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jasonmoyer@reddit

Mavis Bacon
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Insomniac_80@reddit

AOL/AIM, and an adolescence on the internet will make you a crazy fast typer. Btw, does anyone know if the game Typing Maniac is still around?
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audiate@reddit

Because of final fantasy 11
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miuzzo@reddit

I had to type to talk, type to play games. I literally learned to type to play diablo 2.
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DreamsAndSchemes@reddit

BF2 trash talk
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Twitchmonky@reddit

The last typing test I took clocked me at 90+ wpm. Thanks, MMORPGs!
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SnooMarzipans5706@reddit

Yes, because Mario taught me typing.
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Big_Slope@reddit

I still test at around 130 wpm but I was faster back in the AIM days. One of my coworkers said my typing sounds like I just threw a bag of dice down the stairs. I guess that’s a compliment.
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fingerling-broccoli@reddit

I’m pretty fast but my reading speed seems to top out at around 75wpm so that’s the best I can do on typing tests
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liesierre@reddit

i learned to type fast keeping up with yahoo chat, had to make your comments before the conversation scrolled too far
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itsjakerobb@reddit

I type right around 100wpm. That’s like 98th percentile. I am a software engineer. My dad got me started programming on the Commodore 64 when I was six. Still going! 39 years of practice is pretty effective.
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LardLad00@reddit

I was in an experimental class that took typing from like 2nd grade on. I remember winning a competition for fastest typing in my grade at 55 wpm in 3rd grade.
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abstutz@reddit

I took typing in high school (1997). It was one of the most valuable classes I ever took in both high school and college. And all 3 of my kids are taking it. And they have all complained about it. lol.
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notthatiambitter@reddit

asdf jkl;
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Then-Tomatillo-9227@reddit

The class they are taking is through school? Or it’s a program?
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NotBornYesterday420@reddit

Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing
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semigator@reddit

a/s/l?
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ComplexImmediate5140@reddit

AOL and aim definitely got me typing fast.
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punk-y_brewster@reddit

I am fast because of years of fff jjj fff jjj fjf jfj fjf jfj Ad nauseum
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Crisp_Volunteer@reddit

Mario Teaches Typing?
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antsam9@reddit

I hit 165-175 these days, used to be further north. I think the WR is just south of 220, but some people have displayed 300. My highest type speed was over 200, but I'm slowing down in my old age.
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Equivalent_Remote_39@reddit

I got 3rd place on high school in a state speed typing contest and I honestly didn’t feel like I did well. Kind of choked, too nervous. I still rock the shit
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iamtheCarlos@reddit

PAWS
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CallidoraBlack@reddit

Yes and this is largely why.
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Sheerluck42@reddit

I have a virtual keyboard on my phone designed to help touch type with your thumbs. It works really well and I can on par with a physical keyboard. https://preview.redd.it/38b4wr86t5yf1.png?width=720&format=png&auto=webp&s=c287a5eb4dc52697be2c73e096b4a3de3ef38457 bs.
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moles-on-parade@reddit

Dad got an Apple II+ on the occasion of my first birthday and I grew up typing. In high school I took a typing class (1995ish?) and it felt a little absurd. Yeah, I do alright here thirty or forty years later.
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deltadawn6@reddit

Yeah, we were the last generation to take typing class. I currently type 73 wpm
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Eman_Modnar_A@reddit

Why? To you?
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neckbeardsghost@reddit

I thought I was, and then I did a typing test against the software developers on my team and realized I was not 😂 I did a 10 second test and it said I was at 111 words per minute. I was the slowest. 🫠
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PsionicKitten@reddit

I switched to dvorak over 20 years ago. So much better than qwerty. AIM didn't make me a fast typer, playing Starcraft did. If you're typing to someone, you're losing time in which you could be winning.
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kaosinc@reddit

Geocities chat rooms and The Palace. All the wpm
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MLDaffy@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/0mu0wwdvr5yf1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=24c628c3604022a6b76729427a016441e5f2ecfb I learned from AOL 2.5 long before AIM came around. When I took "Typing/Computer" as a freshman in high school we had to use Word Processors. First day of class teacher said hopefully we'll have computers this year but don't hold your breathe. I typed circles around everyone and made extra money doing their work as well as my own during class.l
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TopRedacted@reddit

Typing of the dead on Sega
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Repulsive-Fuel-5281@reddit

MSN Messenger single handedly responsible for my typing speed....
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illinoishokie@reddit

I took typing in high school and wrote a 276,000 word novel. At my best I was about 80 wpm. Now I'm probably 50-60.
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megxennial@reddit

I cut my teeth in AOL scrambler chat rooms trying to unscramble the word and type it the fastest. Ahhh... ProGGies![](https://aolunderground.com/proggies/)
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Pdoinkadoinkadoink@reddit

Vanilla WoW main tank in the days before voice chat. Had to get messages out without letting Sunder Armor fall off. I was already a quick typer, but try coordinating 39 other people using only text while trying not to get squashed by a dragon.
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zaikanekochan@reddit

Somewhat related, the summer going into 7th grade, my parents wanted me to take a summer class, so I looked over the list and chose "keyboarding" because I thought it was gonna be a piano class but on a keyboard. It was not.
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Background-Action-19@reddit

Definitely, but I was lucky to have access to Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing back in the day
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HalfFrozenSpeedos@reddit

Give me back a Nokia with physical keys and I can still type with muscle memory with phone in pocket and without predictive text all while getting the words right more than predictive text does and more words to minute to boot also. I hate touchscreen phones for typing due to the lack of tactile sense when typing vs say old school Nokia
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herseyhawkins33@reddit

I took keyboarding in school but chatting on AOL is where I really learned how to type lol
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I_Dont_Functionn@reddit

I am a fast typer because typing was a required class from 3rd grade thru 5th grade at my school, and then I chose to keep up on practice at home because I knew it would be a relevant skill for the rest of my life
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michaelpstrand@reddit

Because I had keyboard classes in 5th and 6th grade with a mean Lutheran lady who whacked your hands with a pointer stick if they were in the wrong position or the old Apple IIE dinged too many times because you were making mistakes.
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austinmadethis@reddit

When I was in 5th grade our school got the first computer lab in the state and we spent much time fiddling with Typing Tutor. It was the WORST. It used all of these nonsense words to help strengthen our skills. Then AOL hit and, when you had to keep a real conversation with someone, you learned to type pretty quick. The schools got it wrong for sure. Kudos to them to making computer literacy a huge part of the curriculum.
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bascule@reddit

I’m a very fast typer. I’d like to thank Typing Tutor IV with Letter Invaders (a Space Invaders clone where you have to type words before they hit the ground), along with Word Muncher (Number Muncher’s lesser known cousin)
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RipErRiley@reddit

A/S/L?!
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BlueSundown@reddit

Had to scroll way too far down to find this.  
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Desperate-Boot-1395@reddit

IRC based trivia
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Purple-Sherbert8803@reddit

A/S/L check
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eggs_erroneous@reddit

IRC taught me how to type. I think that taking typing in school taught me how to type correctly using the home keys, but chatting on IRC is where I really developed skill. Mavis Beacon can't make typing fun like chat rooms can. And mIRC is where I learned my first scripting language in order to trade...files.
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mattfC137@reddit

Im fast because mavis beacon taught me raw skills...
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StaceyPfan@reddit

I used to be, but after being inactive for so long, I'm not anymore. But once I start at it again, I get faster.
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sasssyrup@reddit

Uh yeah I took keyboarding from Mavis Beacon teaches Typing sooooooooo
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blondeandfabulous@reddit

My mom had a typewriter that she let me use to play with when I was younger, along with computer/typing classes in school. I got to go to the skills fair at the local technical school as a 9th grader because of my mad typing skills. I know- every 15 year olds dream.
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Last-Surprise4262@reddit

If you don’t believe me just ask mavis beacon
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MilkSlow6880@reddit

I learned typing in high school. 72wpm Use that every day. My mom is still mad that I took that class. lol
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Interesting-Set-5993@reddit

that's exactly why I'm 80+ wpm
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Frequent_Alfalfa_347@reddit

Several years of typing classes and typing games taught me the skill. AIM helped me develop fluency within a year.
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volodya024@reddit

I'd like to think I'm fairly fast - I can do about 120wpm The last tpying test I did was actually a few days ago (on typequicker) - and it was about 110wpm. Took me a while to get to this speed though - I used to type about 30-40wpm Most typing apps were kind of boring too so I couldn't stick with them. [type quicker](http://go.typequicker.com/U86beY) helped me a lot (especially the real time hand indicators). /their smart practice mode was really fun too I also tried monkey type and a few others but didn't really use them much. The content is kinda boring - I like that type quicker has a lot of interesting content in their snippets mode
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orAaronRedd@reddit

Don't be jealous that I've been chatting online with babes all day.
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Fun-Preparation-4253@reddit

I had a typing class in the 8th grade in a computer lab I can still hear, but then AIM taught me to write better. Accurately. Detailed. But that was a long time ago. Thankful at the time
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Legitimate-Produce-1@reddit

https://preview.redd.it/49squ2uao5yf1.jpeg?width=1697&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bc09ac3e4175ddceba9fce36ee2eaa251557b850
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civiltribe@reddit

the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs. over and over in typing class on a typewriter. and we were taught where to rest our fingers on the keys.
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dandelion_galah@reddit

I feel my age when I remember I learned up touch-type by typing entries from a paper encyclopaedia into a computer that wasn't connected to the internet.
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Physical-Lettuce-868@reddit

Used to be 90-100 wpm. People used to try and beat me in speed tests at school and they always failed. It didn’t even seem that fast to me. Probably 80 wpm now, at best. I don’t do a lot of typing
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techieveteran@reddit

I can do over 100wpm without looking at the keyboard and not using homerow keys which i never figured out
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Drakflugilo@reddit

Am I fast? No. Am I accurate? Also no.
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gtdishboy@reddit

Started with typing class on a mechanical typewriter in middle school, continued with computer classes in HS, a degree in computer science, and a career in software. I can frequently clock in at 140wpm with perfect or near perfect accuracy.
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Low_Departure_5853@reddit

100% why I'm fast but I do better on a laptop than a phone because I can feel the keys. I miss AIM.
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juicefarm@reddit

Typing of the Dead
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threefeetoffun-@reddit

I took 2 years of keyboarding in high school so I think I’m a fast typer.
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Z8kro11@reddit

Tab + space
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Deathclown333@reddit

93 NWPM last I checked, and yeah, I remember being in 8th grade worried I wasn’t going to make it to 30 NWPM to pass the computer class.
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Apprehensive_Hat8986@reddit

Fast _enough_, but I wouldn't call myself fast. I can type (qwerty) well enough to keep up with my thoughts. Praise be to Mavis Beacon
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QueerTree@reddit

I spent nearly 15 years teaching high school and middle school. Students were absolutely amazed that I can type without looking at my hands. Not one single kid I’ve had in that entire time could touch type! They genuinely would stand around and watch me type emails like I was a circus sideshow act.
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winenot_@reddit

This is totally how I became a fast typer LOL
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Vox_Mortem@reddit

At my fastest I tested at just about 100 WPM, but I think my fastest is probably 80 now. My younger coworkers are always amazed once I really get going. I played TTRPGs on mIRC for years so I guess that's probably why.
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IceCatCharlie@reddit

Same. I could take slow dictation (about 100-110wpm) in my 20s. Now I am about the same at about 80wpm. I credit piano, AIM and typer shark.
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OdinsGhost@reddit

I type fast because of AIM, Bolt chat boards, and Ultima Online. They taught me in ways that actual computer classes never could.
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HouseOfAplesaus@reddit

I learned how to type in 1991 when I was 10 in a school bus in a rural community. It was converted with at least 20 of the “MOST MODERN” puters of the time. Word Munchers, Spelling Blasters and so much Dysentary. Then I moved to a bigger suburban area who actually taught me to type using a typewriter my dad wrote books on. Also had the Neon Gel colored Macintosh monitors (utter garbage if you wanna know) My Ebay and email is older than your mom. If I hear the ICQ UH-Oh! I have seizures. I can draw a bouquet of flowers with a needlepoint map and only number line. *mic drop*
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oldmamallama@reddit

Last time I was actually tested, somewhere around 95 wpm. Probably significantly slower now since the longest thing I type is usually a PowerPoint slide. Old school Telnet chatrooms on my boarding school Vax terminals. There wasn’t much else to do but talk to randos on the internet back then in the middle of nowhere so I got good at it.
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xevofb3ksro@reddit

Yup didn’t know how to type without looking at the keyboard until aim. Arguing on the internet did leagues more to develop my typing skills than the classes they taught us in school.
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Morriganx3@reddit

I’m pretty fast, but I don’t use any recognized system and my accuracy is pretty variable. On the plus side, my hands can type independently of my brain when I’m tired enough. I’ve woken up to find some of the strangest sentences in the middle of academic papers
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RoyalZeal@reddit

When I was 14 I started transcribing my novel onto our brand new home pc. Within a month or two I had abandoned physically writing completely. I was never able to learn the home row system schools tried to teach me but once I had my hands on one at home it just became natural, I remember realizing I hadn't looked at the keyboard in days. Nearly 30 years later that hasnt changed. My life is mostly online, has been since the 90s. It's a lot easier being neurodivergent online than IRL, I can block dickheads with a single click most of the time.
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Deep-Interest9947@reddit

I’m not and never was. I also never used anything other than icq occasionally with my smart friends who went to Harvard and MIT.
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Goblin_Eye_Poker@reddit

At my peak back in like 2005ish I could hit 130 wpm. I've slowed down a tad over the years and average about 100 - 110 now
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SweetCosmicPope@reddit

Keyboarding class in school and a career in IT that has me shitting out emails and teams messages
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kattrup@reddit

I topped out at 70wpm when I was on IRC in the 90s and then went to uni. I'm down at 50 these days.
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TerrakSteeltalon@reddit

Decent. And because I took typing in high school. That class provided more lasting value than most of what I learned.
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emotyofform2020@reddit

Dial up BBS chats
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i_am_randy@reddit

I learned to type in an irc chat room with over 100 people talking at once circa 1994. You learned to type fast or you couldn't be a part of the conversation.
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animus218@reddit

My mother was a secretary and forced me to learn "properly" on a typewriter. Still a little salty I'm grateful for it.
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gamblinonme@reddit

You my friend never had to take a typing class in school and beat the time , “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog”
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RabbitNumber8@reddit

I am incredibly fast (+90 wpm) and I 100% attribute it to chatting on AOL as a teenager. I never took a typing class. 
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KaleidoscopeSad4884@reddit

I had a boyfriend that I argued with for two years on AIM. I wore down the keys on my keyboard.
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the_silent_one1984@reddit

I learned it in 4th grade. But my wife does credit AIM for her typing skills.
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PilotC150@reddit

Pretty sure I was typing 100+ wpm before AIM existed.
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VinylHighway@reddit

I only use two fingers and type incredibly fast. At my office I was called the fastest typist in the west.
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RoncoSnackWeasel@reddit

I’m fast enough, thanks the typing in StarCraft Cheats.
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Its_all_pretty_neat@reddit

I blame yahoo chat in my teens (and then ICQ, MSN etc etc)
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jackfaire@reddit

Yes combination of The Chat house and 20 years of working in call centers
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GrandDaddyDerp@reddit

Yes, because people tell me I your like in the movies. Smh
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B1matth@reddit

We definitely were type fast you guys don’t you think?
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