LOL it looks like we have a lot of pre-typewriter peeps in the house :) I'm old school, so when I learned to type, I learned it on an actual typewriter. When

LOL it looks like we have a lot of pre-typewriter peeps in the house :) I'm old school, so when I learned to type, I learned it on an actual typewriter. When we had to fix mistakes, we needed to use good old fashioned liquid paper. So doing things like calculating your typing speed in words per minute was done where 5 characters was considered a "word". So when I was in school, when the teacher or prof said to hand in a 2000 word essay, it would be based on where a word was considered 5 or 6 characters, regardless of how many actual words there were. http://www.speedtypingonline.com/typing-equations http://www.speedtypingonline.com/typing-equations Interestingly, I just checked on MS Word, and they consider a word to be anything with a space inbetween, so I guess the definition has changed since the Mesozoic era!