Typing Day
Typing Day is an international holiday dedicated to the ability of operators to quickly and efficiently handle typing of various texts
This day is organized thanks to a special competition that has been held in Malaysia since 2011 Speed typing experts compete on it The authors of the competition were a team of people who developed a special program capable of automatically correcting various errors and typos in the text
Typing Day is celebrated annually on January 8th and aims to encourage self-expression through writing In addition, the holiday allows you to expand the popularity of this method of communication, which can be quite effective, accurate and fast
To celebrate this day, various events are held dedicated to this type of activity, and a traditional competition is also organized Residents of Malaysia take part in it, while other countries have the opportunity to participate via the Internet The online competition is held in various languages, which allows anyone to take part in it
One of the varieties of speed typing is touch typing, which is a method of typing letters that uses all fingers, while the operator does not look at the computer keyboard or typewriter keys at all This method of typing appeared more than 130 years ago and can significantly increase the productivity of workers in this field
The speed of typing depends, as a rule, on many factors, among which the most common are the individual himself and his disposition to this type of activity, as well as the amount and effectiveness of training According to general data, a standard printing worker who has undergone special training is able to type about 200-400 characters per minute However, at international competitions a result was recorded that significantly exceeded such indicators Thus, indicators of more than 800 characters are known, which is a fairly good result When performing calculations, all key strokes are taken into account, including letters, as well as register characters such as punctuation marks, accents, numbers and other elements of machine writing