Around the mid-90's I got the kids one of the "Famous Person teaches Typing" programs so they could try learning to type. It had a few typing games which they

Around the mid-90's I got the kids one of the "Famous Person teaches Typing" programs so they could try learning to type. It had a few typing games which they liked, but they didn't get far. I thought I'd try it out to see if it could improve my typing. It asked my goal WPM, and I guessed high and put in 45, since I'd done abysmally in high school typing (actual electric typewriters... this was around the time that the earth's crust was starting to cool :-). It then had me take a test to see how fast I could type now, so I'd have a baseline to start with to see how far I'd come... and I was easily able to do 72 WPM! With respect to the original article, I wonder if this was on typewriters. There's a lot more stress typing there, as a typo is a lot "worse", in that you have to use an eraser, white out, etc. I imagine that computer keyboards, with the painless backspace, makes things faster.