How fast can you type?

GuitarBizarre · 03-03-2012, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by mr dave

But that's kind of the point of the tests. It's not to see how fast you can write (through typing) but just how fast you can type. It eliminates the ability to plan ahead and gets you out of the habit of mentally anticipating the next most common keystroke, which in turn increases accuracy.

Yes but it also eliminates your ability to predict grammatical conventions and sentence structure.

mr dave · 03-05-2012, 07:28 AM

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Originally Posted by GuitarBizarre

Yes but it also eliminates your ability to predict grammatical conventions and sentence structure.

That's exactly it. If you ever take a data entry type job (realistically the only kind of work where a test like this still matters) then you're generally not dealing with grammatical conventions and normal sentence structure.

GuitarBizarre · 03-05-2012, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by mr dave

That's exactly it. If you ever take a data entry type job (realistically the only kind of work where a test like this still matters) then you're generally not dealing with grammatical conventions and normal sentence structure.

Well then that means the test itself is obsolete, no? Why would we test ourselves using a form inapplicable to the real world? We either type quotations or from the head in the real world, so tests using those standards are more applicable as far as I see it.