WRITING LIKE LIGHTNING.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 13 April 1922, Page 4

WRITING LIKE LIGHTNING.

TYPEWRITING AND SHORTHAND

The knowledge of shorthand and typewriting possessed by the average office worker pales into insignificance before the high-speed records that have been established recently by Miss Millicent Woodward, England's champion typist, who recently tped from dictation at the rate of 235 words a minute. Miss Woodward., while olindfolded, reached an average speed of 173 words a minute, and in a recent contest in Paris she typed 3394 strokes in" five minutes. She is able to type at a high sped and carry on a conversation at the same time. She went to compete for the world's typewriting chaxnI pionship in New York. The highest speed, by the way, that was ever achieved in this test, which consists of an hour's typing, is 143 words a minute. Mr. R. G. Curtis, another British typist, once succeeded in typing 22 commercial letters in 30 minntes —39 perfec, and three with, one error each. He can also type 160 words a minute blindfolded. The fastest shorthand writer in the world is Mr. . Nathan Behrm, an American, who established a world's record on December 30, 1919, when he wrote shorthand at the rate of 322 words a minute. Another of Mr. Behrin's feats was the writing of shorthand on a blackboard at the phenomenal rate of 260. words a minute.