Fast Typing. Miss Eleanor Mitchell, thrice champion tj'pist of Europe, who is a native of Manchester, can operate a machine at a rate of between 800 and 900 taps a minute, and type from a newspaper at a speed of 125 words a minute, says an English writer. Miss Mitchell can type swiftly w’hile carrying on a conversation in French, and when blindfolded.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18959, 3 January 1930, Page 12
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