Saturday, March 24, 2012

Typing Test

Desperate times have led me to a typing test site because the latest job interview requires me to enter 7000 numerical characters an hour for 12 hours a day for 30 consecutive days. 84,000* 30=2.52 million numbers.  So my 74 WPM typing skills are meaningless if I can't enter 7000 numbers an hour. Right now I'm at 3000+


"Your accuracy was impressive.
Your speed was 3991 Keystrokes Per Hour "


and I have one day to practice and double my speed. I made the mistake of telling the truth on my applications to the National Park Service. That means I'll be lucky if I can get a job entering data for the postal service until astigmatism wears my eyes out.

Typing Speeds

See how others are scoring right now on the Learn2Type.com typing test:
User oggybleacher typed 76 WPM with 2 errors scoring 74 WPM
User fmanuel24 typed 63 WPM with 3 errors scoring 60 WPM
User lanajosina typed 61 WPM with 1 errors scoring 60 WPM
User megan_earles.yahoo.com typed 15 WPM with 2 errors scoring 13 WPM
User Latinessa typed 27 WPM (zero errors) scoring 27 WPM
User lizafh typed 29 WPM with 2 errors scoring 27 WPM
User shiranganijayatunge.yahoo.com typed 32 WPM with 1 errors scoring 31 WPM
User mia.is.the.gr8test typed 14 WPM with 1 errors scoring 13 WPM
User thomaspetrilla typed 55 WPM (zero errors) scoring 55 WPM
User dmigas330.att.net typed 59 WPM with 9 errors scoring 50 WPM
User classicheidi typed 62 WPM with 1 errors scoring 61 WPM
User louisepollard.ymail.com typed 62 WPM with 2 errors scoring 60 WPM
User MiMi8732 typed 20 WPM (zero errors) scoring 20 WPM
User mcgeejl typed 25 WPM with 1 errors scoring 24 WPM
User Takiyah.Thompson typed 30 WPM with 3 errors scoring 27 WPM
User jtd1956z typed 29 WPM with 1 errors scoring 28 WPM
User deja0274 typed 44 WPM (zero errors) scoring 44 WPM
User RMatina typed 65 WPM with 2 errors scoring 63 WPM
User tpc82 typed 13 WPM with 3 errors scoring 10 WPM
User valoribennett typed 17 WPM with 1 errors scoring 16 WPM
User AlexaIkuto typed 63 WPM with 1 errors scoring 62 WPM
User blikins26 typed 38 WPM with 3 errors scoring 35 WPM
User faith8225 typed 50 WPM with 1 errors scoring 49 WPM
User Blaha630 typed 48 WPM with 5 errors scoring 43 WPM
User bahez1989 typed 45 WPM with 1 errors scoring 44 WPM
User Shadae.Gibson typed 45 WPM with 3 errors scoring 42 WPM
User justhadtosay01 typed 7 WPM (zero errors) scoring 7 WPM

Bamboo Hat

I chose a salt and pepper motif to match my gray beard and black heart. Why are the stripes vertical? Because the pattern I used was for making a solid color hat but I decided to be fancy and added a stripe and then realized it would be running the whole length from brim to tip. But as failures go it allowed me to see the way to really make an easy hat by making a brim that will fit the head and then making spirals up and up twice the size of your head and then turning the hat into a double layered tube and cinching up the end. It's like a sock for your head. Two comments:
1) I don't know why grandmothers can take an easy thing and totally mystify me with their directions. Really, they should hire an industrial engineer to write the standard operating procedure.
2) I really hope I don't ever have a need for the "chemo cap" pattern.

update: I unwound the whole hat because I can do better.
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