My understanding is that Morse code is like 15-20 words/minute. http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/x9004008.pdf http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology

My understanding is that Morse code is like 15-20 words/minute. http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/x9004008.pdf http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Technology/x9004008.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code#Speed_in_words_per_minute https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_code#Speed_in_words_per_... Fair enough about the Remington 'TYPEWRITER' story; I don’t have direct evidence there, only what I have read elsewhere (which could be apocryphal). Someone at Remington might have swapped R with . because they wanted to keep letters separate from punctuation, or the like.