Typewriting Speed Contest (1938)
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- čas přidán 12. 04. 2014
- The Hague, Netherlands / Holland.
Good shots of men and women typing as they take part in an International Typewriting Competition. They all sit at little desks on a stage; most type away furiously but some are a little more languid. There seems to be a large audience watching them. C/U of the man who won the contest (we aren't told which country he comes from).
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My typing record is 123 words per minute on my computer keyboard, so when I got a typewriter I thought this skill would transfer and I'd be able to at least get a solid 60wpm.
However, to my surprise - typing on an old 1930s typewriter is hard work and as the keys are staged with dangerous gaps to get your fingers stuck between, you have to be exacting in your hand movement as well as firm.
The fact that they are typing this fast on unpowered machines is absolutely remarkable!
It’s pretty cool this competition brings you big opportunities such as GOVERNMENT jobs, secretaries! Now do this competition with a speaker and see how many are outed!
Bro how loud offices would've been back then tho
my teacher competed in this
ur teacher was alive since the 1930s? dam
your teacher is 100 years old?
back when an office job gave you arms of a gorilla by the end of a working day.
Very happy to see this 👏👏👏
Thanks for the video!
"Yes, you heard"
এটা দেখে আমার মনে হচ্ছে এই প্রতিযোগিতায় অংশগ্রহণ করা মানুষ গুলার কেউই হয়ত আজ বেচে নেই😢😢 মানুষের জীবন কত সংক্ষিপ্ত 😢😢
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The winner looks like he's straight out of some Bond movie
Imagine letting them use the computer
They will never touch the Backspace
0:15 newton
Que maestros que nivel!
Wonderfull machine
Awesome ya, from India, powerfulTamilnadu
Damn son
Yesss you heard
coool
Sick burn at the end haha.
Of course the man won
Stenographers: AMATEURS
So glad those days are gone....
Why
Yeah but I still find typewriters interesting.
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Wait why did all narrators sound the same back then?
Limitations of recording equipment, and using a certain style of speaking that tends to be more clearly picked up on the microphone. The higher bound frequencies associated with the upward tight inflections used in that manner of speaking is better within the frequency ranges of microphones of the time. As the technology got better, greater range of frequency was able to be used and thus a greater range of speaking voices and sounds could be recorded. Similar held true for speakers. Frequency range was limited for a long while. Funny enough it wasn't the manufacturers but some passionate musical artists that progressed the field early on. Bing Crosby was very adamant on improving production quality over his entire lifetime.
damnnn
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Mechanical engineering
Wow imagine you make mistake
Somebody please tell me I'm wrong, but did the announcer say, "The winner is a man, and business gentlemen prefer blonde"?
Who is watching this video before their typing exams 😃
YALL HAVE TYPING EXAMS?!
If he was a business man could he have bribed the judges, maybe the head judge was a pretty bird and he was giving her wunn.
with finger skills like that....
Look, they're using the right technique! Hands floating, moving from the elbows. Not the ugly "home row touch typing" touted today with your fingers glued to the keys.
YES. THANK YOU! I HATE THE HOME ROW METHOD!
tbf, typing on a typewriter and typing on a keyboard are pretty different.
@@GTLugo True, but the difference is that you can transfer the typewriter method over to pc, but not the other way around.
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Twitter uses be like when you make a joke.
Boomers vs GenZ
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