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* Combine buckling spring keyboards with people who type over 100WPM (Think 150-180 on QWERTY) with hard strikes, not only do people hear a very amplified strike and with a rapid finger lift, a return click, they'll hear the springs resonating inside the keyboard as well. Now apply that to someone writing the paper... [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxjTgfGTLDo like this boy.]

* [[wikipedia:Richard Stallman|Richard Stallman]], Unix hacker and free software activist. MIT's hacker lab where he felt at home was disappearing. Most of the hackers had left for or had been hired by two competing companies—LMI and Symbolics. Stallman took exception to the last one, because they'd made a friend of his quit. So he did the only thing he could to fight it—code. For two years, from 1982 to the end of 1983, Stallman worked by himself to clone the output of the Symbolics programmers, with the aim of preventing them from gaining a monopoly on the lab's computers with their proprietary software. If that doesn't sound impressive, think of it this way: he did the programming of ten or so hackers, matching them feature for feature, only stopping to sleep. That's '''''TWO YEARS''''' of Rapid-Fire Typing. This troper has seen the special low-impact keyboard he has to use to type these days.

* The fastest typing speed ever, 216 words per minute, was achieved by Stella Pajunas-Garnand from Chicago in 1946 in one minute on an IBM electric [http://www.bigsiteofamazingfacts.com/history-of-typewriters\] [http://www.owled.com/typing.html\][http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/modelb/modelb_4509PH04.html\] [http://www.deskstore.com/INFORMATION-1/en/Plan-Your-Office/Believe-it-or-not\].

* The fastest typing speed ever, 216 words per minute, was achieved by Stella Pajunas-Garnand from Chicago in 1946 in one minute on an IBM electric [https://web.archive.org/web/20130515165828/http://www.bigsiteofamazingfacts.com/history-of-typewriters] [https://web.archive.org/web/20180826043812/http://www.owled.com/typing.html][http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/modelb/modelb_4509PH04.html\] [http://www.deskstore.com/INFORMATION-1/en/Plan-Your-Office/Believe-it-or-not\].

* The longest time typing nonstop ever is 162 hours and one minute, done by California high school teacher Robin Heil in 1976 [http://www.bigsiteofamazingfacts.com/history-of-typewriters\].

* The longest time typing nonstop ever is 162 hours and one minute, done by California high school teacher Robin Heil in 1976 [https://web.archive.org/web/20130515165828/http://www.bigsiteofamazingfacts.com/history-of-typewriters].

* Over a six-year span starting in 1968, Mrs. Marva Drew of Waterloo, Iowa, typed the numbers one to one million on a manual typewriter, a feat requiring 2,473 pages, because her young son came home from school and said that his teacher told the class that it was impossible to count to a million [http://www.cracked.com/article_18647_7-amazing-yet-uninspiring-feats-human-endurance.html#ixzz0v81pQbJz\][http://www.bigsiteofamazingfacts.com/history-of-typewriters\] [http://books.google.com/books?id=PuP3nAi0YiQC&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=marva+drew+1968&source=bl&ots=5d-6Cilfui&sig=7ZZrV89x-VXPTvy4Oh76CUYg-4Y&hl=en&ei=gDVSTOPYEMKBlAen3-DXBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=marva%20drew%201968&f=false\].

* Over a six-year span starting in 1968, Mrs. Marva Drew of Waterloo, Iowa, typed the numbers one to one million on a manual typewriter, a feat requiring 2,473 pages, because her young son came home from school and said that his teacher told the class that it was impossible to count to a million [http://www.cracked.com/article_18647_7-amazing-yet-uninspiring-feats-human-endurance.html#ixzz0v81pQbJz\][https://web.archive.org/web/20130515165828/http://www.bigsiteofamazingfacts.com/history-of-typewriters] [http://books.google.com/books?id=PuP3nAi0YiQC&pg=PA163&lpg=PA163&dq=marva+drew+1968&source=bl&ots=5d-6Cilfui&sig=7ZZrV89x-VXPTvy4Oh76CUYg-4Y&hl=en&ei=gDVSTOPYEMKBlAen3-DXBQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBg#v=onepage&q=marva%20drew%201968&f=false\].

* Professional ''[[StarCraft]]'' players work at incredible levels of "action per minute", each action being an order to a unit, a macro put into action, [[Construct Additional Pylons|additional pylons constructed]] or such. The average home player will do about 30 APM. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbpCLqryN-Q Championship players will do at least 200-300 APM].

* One advantage to being a fast typist, being left handed. QWERTY Keyboards have most of the most common letters on the left side of the keyboard (A, E, D, R, S, T), so lefties have their more coordinated and limber hand covering them.