The Biggest Scandal In Speed Typing History

As a guy who can touch type on dvorak and also RSTHD (currently using), both of these layouts are more comfortable to use, the speed gain may be a little, but it's mostly for comfort and concentrating more commonly used keys on the home row, RSTHD goes way farther and prioritizes other things too, like the anatomy of human typing, and using AI to find the best layout using these parameters (which ended up being RSTHD). this is simplified, i encourage further reading for anyone interested in possibly reducing the likelihood of gaining arthritis (just a hypothesis) or typing more comfortably.

Dude called telephone game "Chinese whispers"😂😂😂😂😂

wild

When I saw the Raid ad, I thought it was a joke. Ouch.

Are you looking for a stenographer in your case with Billy Mitchell? 😆😆

Sadly, it sounds like Barbara got strong-armed into playing along.
It sounds like she agreed to be an advocate, and she was very clear with her word choice, but was, either verbally or situationally, threatened to play along or suffer consequences.

I want a Guinness World record for being sat in my room watching this specific video, at this specific time, with this specific weather and at this specific period in the suns lifetime.

Literally no-one else has done that so I have superpowers.

They way you say "Dvorak" sounds like "Dvorcek", which makes me think of a slavic arms dealer

who knew that spedrunning scandals would go much father back!

Nah, Barbara aint the worlds fastest typist, its Todd Rogers, you just weren't there to see it

Fun fact, qwerty was designed to be less efficient in order to not lock up the keys on the typewriters of the time. With modern technology it actually makes more sense to use Dvorak. Being that qwerty is the only standard I've ever used, anything else still feels wrong.

I can’t seem to find the video Karl made that’s all about how Guinness has always been BS.

All the cheating stuff aside, I was absolutely floored by the typing speeds talked about in this video. The highest I've gotten was somewhere in the mid 90s and I thought that was pretty fast 🙃

Most of the claims about women back than were lies to push women's rights and feminist ideas in the workplace. If you look into alot of the claims on women inventors or women soldiers it is all lies

This was incredibly fascinating. I never thought I'd be intrigued by typing

Ok i know they pay you but advertising pay to win games. Really?

Wish I saw this video sooner, in middle or high school 2 of my friends and I all decided to learn and use the Dvorak keyboard layout. Specifically, because we heard that it was supposed to be a faster more efficient way of typing. I can't remember why or when I gave it up, but I remember getting to the point where I could type without looking at the keyboard normally. Just funny to have that life experience and find out this history behind it lol

It's so weird to me that peopleare so fervent about lying about and then defending world records.

Caught lying through their teeth on a filmed talk show? Disappeared and seemingly came back either through stories or reappearing themselves? Is Barbara Blackburn also Uri Gellar?

You weren’t there.

She didn't even have her hands in the right position and typed gibberish on the show.. the only evidence of her typing ability shows her to be a beginner. It's incredible that it was all made up. Thank you Karl Jobst for uncovering this.

imagine typing a 70 after a claim like that. My dumb ass can easily type 70 and I suck at typing.

Me getting 70 and going yeah that’s pretty fast

She couldn't even type?!?!

I hope lena raine gets royalties for all these videos

What "type" of person would lie about this?

Hi Karl I’m gonna try to set the record for longest poo 💩 I might fudge the time gonna need you to make a video debunking it please..

I love how you find the most obscure things are get right to the bottom

The second you said "Guinness" I knew it was a lie. They aren't world record keepers, they are just a paid service. If you give them enough money they will make up some nonsense and give you an award for it, regardless if you are the best at whatever it is.

the fact that she only typed 70wpm on live television is hilarious lol. my PB is 170 and i don't think i've ever seen 70.
also, the statement that QWERTY was just arbitrarily decided is a bit weird, because i don't think it was.

Guinness is a complete joke, but back in 1985, nobody knew better.

Wouldn't say she was lieing she was just going on what someone told her

Crazy that people thought an 85 year old woman was the fastest typer in the world lol

This reminds me of an old lady I knew who was the oldest person to ever live in our city. Her secret? She lied lol.

Lol super interesting game of telephone.

Karl, the real legend

More now than ever we see fake news being created in real time yet people are so adamant than the history in the books today are perfectly fine no, corruption, ever.

A woman taught me to type, think her name was Mavis

Those android secretaries with the extendy metal prongy fingers who work for Chief Teriyaki in Ghost in the Shell are the fastest typists.

Don't care if she wasn't
Bottom-line she's still plenty fast and I'd be happy to be even just close to her skill level.

Barbara didn’t need a Steely Dan to please herself.

In middle school i typed 214 words in a minute on one of those tests and the teacher cameover and was like huh and made me do it again infront of her. I got like 207 second time. Now i know why 😂

Mastertype was a typing game originally from 1982. I played with it many times over the years since my family got a copy in 1985, when I was 5 years old. In that edition it had 15 lessons in total with the ability to create your own lessons with the words of your choice. The words were random, and never was a complete sentence (that I could see). I remember in the early lessons it would register each word with the space bar. Later lessons needed the return to register each one.
Legitimately typing, I could only reach lesson 4 or 5 and at about 30 WPM on our Commodore 64 (QWERTY), and as an adult. As a kid, you could achieve 100-200 WPM just by pounding on the keyboard as fast as possible!
[The game itself featured a globe in the middle of the screen where you would type. From each of the corners of the screen a character from the keyboard (and later, words) would move into the center of the screen to destroy a quadrant of the globe. Type each character or word and your wizard character will zap it. If it was too close to the globe, the word will just be knocked back to the corner. Otherwise it will be replaced with the next word on the list.
When a word hits your globe, that quadrant is destroyed. Should it be hit there again, your game ends in an explosion and the message, "The Words Won."
Completing the lesson would give you the words per minute and score, plus a recommendation to try the next lesson or (if you got the game over screen) repeat the last lesson.]
It was a fun program and good for the time, but it was not a full-fledged typing program to monitor your ability.

Lol a woman being the best at anything in the world is a red flag right there. And no I don’t mean fake “women” zoomers pretend to believe the psychosis of.

I am always suspicious about claims made by people with symbol of roman torture device on their neck.

Actual journalism

I’m a Dvorak typist and I am very ashamed that Barbera and the Dvorak marketing did this.

I just noticed that the guy demonstrating fast typing isn't typing any numbers. although I can touch type, I never learnt to do the numbers on the top row and I always considered that a deficiency, but maybe it isn't?

The name of the Dvorak keyboard layout is pronounced differently from the composer's name. I typed on Dvorak for over 10 years, and am in the process of trying my own variation of NotGate's ISRT layout now.