I just did a Words Per Minute test spoken vs typed to test this notion out and that doesn't hold true for me. I cannot imagine it holds true for most, given the discrepancy of the results, maybe except niche populations like stenographers. I kind of know what you mean though and before I tried my WPM test, I was thinking of possible explanations about the muscles it takes to control your mouth, jaw and all to speak vs move your fingers but now I am thinking it's more of a perception, not accounting for other variables. When most of us are talking, we are talking with other people, so we attempt to control tone, maybe consider what the other person has said to us, and deliberately try to convey what it is we are saying to our 'audience', often accompanied by expressive body gestures such as moving our hands or changing posture. I think many of those dynamics really make spoken conversation seem more gradual and slower then it really can be, in regards to just the muscle movement and motor control. When we're typing, often we're just sitting still and the tone we're responding to is more that of our own imagination of how we think the person is intending their assertions, questions, posts, with no body language or pitch to go on, so were usually dealing with less aspects in the interaction to consider..
do they? and is it? neither can really keep up. its a bandwidth problem. its also a language problem. few things that can be said simply are accurate. few things that are accurate can be said simply. even the word 'accurate' is a not entirely simple or commonly used word.
I'm qualified in shorthand up to 100 wpm (I could probably have done 120 at my height of practice, not been keeping it up since I passed the exam) thats pretty much the limit for teeline shorthand. Someone who does pitman could probably get up to 150 wpm The average person talks in the 200-300 range A practiced stenographer could probably do 300 wpm or more.
Did some wikipedia on this: Typing: Current online records of sprint speeds on short text selections are 290 wpm, achieved by Guilherme Sandrini, on typingzone.com, and 256 wpm (a record caught on video), achieved by Sean Wrona, on TypeRacer. Stenotype: Guinness World Records[10] gives 360 wpm with 97.23% accuracy as the highest achieved speed using a stenotype. Handwriting: Using stenography (shorthand) methods, this rate increases greatly. Handwriting speeds of up to 350 wpm have been achieved in shorthand competitions. Speech: John Moschitta, Jr., was listed in Guinness World Records, for a time, as the world's fastest speaker, being able to talk at 586 wpm.[19] He has since been surpassed by Steve Woodmore, who achieved a rate of 637 wpm.
I had to practice 3-5 hours daily for 3 months to get to 100... 350 sounds like the least fun way to get arthritis before you turn 30.
was the OP actually about typing? i totally did not take it that way until everyone started talking about it.
I guess it just boils down to the fact that I don't do oral. More of an introvert. But it is nice to get that ~100 extra wpm while handwriting! Has anyone seen the bridge??
