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    Image of Yerzriknot Yerzriknot
    12:12 PM

    In reply to This Fifth Grader Can Type Faster Than You
    She can search for porn like a pro.
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    Image of Ryan_Long Ryan_Long
    01:49 PM

    @Yerzriknot: Nah, she's older than 7- she's searching for Google.
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    Image of SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!! SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!
    11:28 AM

    In reply to This Fifth Grader Can Type Faster Than You
    How fast can you type "I have no life"?
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    Image of NorwoodIsMyHero NorwoodIsMyHero
    12:00 PM

    @SewerShark: LOOK BEHIND YOU, A THREE HEADED MONKEY!!!: Not as fast as her apparently.
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    Image of crackel crackel
    09:47 AM

    In reply to This Fifth Grader Can Type Faster Than You
    I spent a few minutes looking for good comments here. People don't want to hear about how awesome you think you are.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    04:22 AM

    In reply to You Have Nothing to Apologize For, Panera Bread iMac Man
    See that nerds. You don't just have to eat Hot Pockets and Cheetos while you're gaming.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    04:17 AM

    In reply to This Fifth Grader Can Type Faster Than You
    There's a future office cubicle with her name on it..
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    Image of macpatrik macpatrik
    12:22 PM

    @Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: I'm thinking she would make a great receptionist.
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    Image of blash blash
    03:49 AM

    In reply to This Fifth Grader Can Type Faster Than You
    I suck. I can only do like 30 WPM because I peck with only 2 fingers hehe.

    But seriously though - QWERTY was designed to slow people down. 120 WPM by a 5th grader is pretty incredible, but I wonder how much she would blow people's minds with something like a Dvorak layout.
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    01:18 AM

    In reply to This Fifth Grader Can Type Faster Than You
    I used to be able to do 150-160wpm, w/ very few errors (I always screw up punctuation).

    I would be surprised if I could still crack 120 w/out a significant warm-up.

    But I can also type 50-60wpm one handed. :P

    I always wanted to learn how to type one handed on two keyboards at the same time, but alas it is impossible to truly touch-type one handed, so I would have to learn how to operate my eyes independently to make it work. 8-O
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    01:23 AM

    @IN THE FACE!: I actually did try to train myself to use my eyes independently, and I did make one modest achievement toward that aim, and then promptly threw up. I gave up on that research shortly there-after...
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    Image of Fractal the Meek Fractal the Meek
    01:10 AM

    In reply to This Fifth Grader Can Type Faster Than You
    85 wpm here. No errors. [www.typingtest.com]

    (And for folks boasting 150+ wpm with < 99% accuracy, that's called screwing around on the computer. Not typing.)
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    Edited by Fractal the Meek at 12/19/09 1:19 AM Fractal the Meek was starred Fractal the Meek was unstarred
    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    12:40 AM

    In reply to This Fifth Grader Can Type Faster Than You
    Oh great, she can grow up and be a secretary, yay!

    Let me put it this way. By the time she's old enough to work as a secretary, voice recognition would be ready to type as fast as you can speak.
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    Edited by Noobs-R-Us at 12/19/09 12:41 AM Noobs-R-Us was starred Noobs-R-Us was unstarred
    Image of blash blash
    03:52 AM

    @Noobs-R-Us: Voice recognition has its own problems. Imagine trying to take notes with voice recognition during a lecture or a presentation when everyone in the room is supposed to be quiet. Uggh.
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    Image of HollywoodBob HollywoodBob
    11:05 AM

    @blash: Yeah because everyone clicking away at their effing laptops is in no way annoying. Get a pencil and a notebook ya nerds.
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    Image of MrEvil MrEvil
    01:53 PM

    @HollywoodBob: Until schools start teaching left handed pupils to write mirrored you're just going to have to put up with the clicking of my keyboard. Seriously, writing at the pace of most lectures by hand is VERY uncomfortable for a lefty. The only time handwriting is even remotely comfortable for me is when its on a tablet hooked up to a computer.
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    Image of infmom infmom
    12:38 AM

    In reply to This Fifth Grader Can Type Faster Than You
    I can type 110wpm with no problem. Of course, I've been typing since before Mackenzie's parents were born, most likely.
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    Image of ploopsy ploopsy
    06:25 AM

    @infmom: did you learn on this?
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    Image of infmom infmom
    12:31 PM

    @ploopsy: Not quite. :) My dad had a Remington that was similar to that, though.
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    Image of jepzilla jepzilla
    12/18/09

    In reply to This Fifth Grader Can Type Faster Than You
    Someone give her a dvorak keyboard.
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    Image of Bertone77 Bertone77
    12/18/09

    In reply to This Fifth Grader Can Type Faster Than You
    but cabnshe type likeme withjn no errors??1
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    12/18/09

    In reply to This Fifth Grader Can Type Faster Than You
    I type a paltry 50-6o words per minute on a good day, yet somehow I don't feel the sting of inferiority. No doubt she will avoid x-rays the rest of her life, to avoid detection of her robotic endoskeleton.
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    Image of ilovexspin ilovexspin
    12/18/09

    In reply to This Fifth Grader Can Type Faster Than You
    "Geez, these overachieving kids nowadays."

    Maybe now you wanna lower your intern age from college grads to...oh i don't know...just putting it out there...17?
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    Image of Killjoy Killjoy
    12/18/09

    In reply to You Have Nothing to Apologize For, Panera Bread iMac Man
    Huh. I didn't know you could actually *win* that game, but here I am looking at the guy who did it. And if there weren't clones of him running around in-game before, no doubt there will be now.
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