From: hellsop_at_ninehells.com
Date: Fri Aug 26 2005 - 10:07:50 PDT
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 10:50:23PM -0500, William Pociengel wrote:
> Larry Yaeger wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > question"... How many words/minute can you
> > print?... Naaah). A decent touch typist can type
> > 80 words/minute, and some professionals can type
> > up to 120 words/minute. Pens are not going to
> > replace keyboards for nominal data entry.
> >
> <snip>
> there used to be this thing called 'shorthand' where the idea wasn't to
> write characters but to write words. if you don't count words per minute
> by counting 'character' based words then attaining the same speed as a
> good touch typist is not so big a deal.
Ain't never heard of a HWR parser that could manage shorthand, though.
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