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TextExpander: Catching Up with Really Fast Typists

Posted by Jean

We just released TextExpander 2.1 this week. It now supports one-character abbreviations. If you use a delimiter to trigger your expansions, you can turn any letter or character into an abbreviation for a snippet.

We also improved the performance and reliability for really fast typists. I say “really” fast, because I am a fast typist, and I never had a problem with TextExpander not keeping up with me. I just tested myself at 10 Fast Fingers, which I found via a b0rg_tech’s blog post, “Saving Seconds.”

Want to challenge me? :-)
70 words

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3 Responses to “TextExpander: Catching Up with Really Fast Typists”

  1. Lesa King Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 9:50 am

    LOL Fun test Jean! But I beat ya by a little bit:

    105 :)

  2. Jean Says:
    May 16th, 2008 at 12:06 pm

    I’ve since discovered that lots of people I know are super fast, by playing TypeRacer against some of our Twitter friends. (http://play.typeracer.com/). I had no idea that 70 wpm could be considered slow!

  3. Kathryn Martyn, M.NLP Says:
    June 8th, 2008 at 8:42 am

    I got 100 WPM first try, but it went downhill from there. Eventually I was at 75 WPM! Obviously taking a typing test over and over isn’t going to improve my score.

    I use the Dvorak keyboard layout too, so it gives me an edge. Here’s a link to the Wikipedia entry for Dvorak: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard

    My last try I got 95 WPM so I could take a screen shot. :-)

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