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in thread creating crystal ball

grizzley:
P.S. How do you, people, do it?!? I mean, writing nodes so quick! It takes time to preview and format correctly and you give almost immediate (and so long!) response! Admit, you had this answer prepared for a few weeks and just waited for proper question... :)

Well ... you almost answered it yourself earlier...

if there is any 100CPM magician willing to use it, it would be nice to have it working with frequency 100/s. Tough constraint...

I first touched a computer (terminal) in high school, and immediately realized that I'd be using them for the rest of my life......so I took typing classes the very next semester. The large number of pretty girls in the class had no bearing on my decision! ;^) It was perhaps the most useful course I took.

One thing about being a relatively fast typist, though...I can't *stand* it when an IDE tries to help me type or predict what I'm going to do next. There's a "flow-state" you're in when you touch-type, and making decisions on choosing text fragments keeps pulling you out of the flow, so it ultimately slows me down. So even if you're successful in this project, I still won't be able to use it... ;^P

...roboticus

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Re^4: creating crystal ball
by grizzley (Chaplain) on Apr 23, 2008 at 07:08 UTC
    I tried to search google for some stats on how fast people type. I found this typing test and it seems that for simple text without '[]{}$!&%^#' even I am much faster than 100CPM. So the constraint becomes at least 300/s.