6-12-26 (Friday) Smith-Corona Super-Speed
for OTP
Let's suppose that you want to be the record-setting word typer of all time.
if the average typing speed is:
40 words per minute
then it's possible to crank out:
2,400 words per hour
If you can keep up that typing pace (it would not be possible to take breaks - perhaps you could urinate in a sports-drink bottle while you are typing at your desk) then it is conceivable that you can type:
19,200 words per 8 hour work day
After a 40 hour week of dedicated typing, you could reach a staggering:
96,000 words in a week
After one year of urinating in sports-drink bottles and skipping vacation, you could achieve:
4,992,000 typed words
Amazing! As a bonus for a job well done, let's round your word count to:
5 million typed words a year
5 MILLION WORDS A YEAR! (you might also have accumulated at least 260 bottles of "trucker's lemonade," but let's not focus on that. Now you are a FIVE MILLION WORD champion. Now what? Now you want MORE! Of course you do! You figure that you could make a career of this. Let's imagine that you put in 40 years of this typing prowess, GO CHAMP, YOU CAN DO IT!
Let's imagine that you did it. It has been a wonderful word typing career.
In 40 years you have typed:
200,000,000 words
Incredible! Inhuman! Two-Hundred-Million words!
But wait, some guy just declared that he should be rewarded for having accomplished typing 1,000,000,000,000 words. ONE TRILLION WORDS!
WHAT?!? You dedicated your life to this! You gave everything, you sacrificed vacations, your body is a wreck, you can no longer move your fingers after all of that typing. You did the best that you could do. Two-Hundred-Million words is the most that one person can type. It would take 5,000 dedicated word typers each typing 200,000,000 words to reach One-Trillion typed words. It would take more than a village, it would take a small town, a decent sized ARMY to accomplish that. How could that shockingly unimaginable mind-boggling number of typed words be credited to just one person? -fiddleink
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