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Quote: Original post by phresnel

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How come when some people post on forums, they press enter when the text reaches the edge
of the editing box? It's actually quite common, for what seems like a behaviour associated
with the mechanical typewriter.

I actually find it a lot easier to read a block
of text that stays within a particular field of view.
Having a 16:9 widescreen, the default wordwrap makes
people's text stupid long. On the OTHER hand, I could
(and often do) just shrink the browser window to make
the text a readable block size. I know I used to do that
a lot in these forums. That is until I got lazy, and
decided to mostly stop.

To each their own i guess?

(ok, so I got a little carried away with the newlines!)
(about 4-5 words wider than your latin quote is about the right width i think. And that is less than 1/3 of my
monitor width.)

Though the problem with your blockof text  is  that each line has  adifferent width,  i.e. it isn't injustified setting,  i.e.  horrible to look at.  There's also a style-sheet for that,  but nothing beatsLaTeX-setting, btw.You  can  leetily circumvent  thisby using code-tags.  Oh, and  btw,some  70  letters  or  so per line are claimed  to  be ideal for nice reading.

Wow.  Phresnel thanks  for showingme the light.  Seems  I have a newgoal for  all  my  further  posts.

Still reads like the text is struggling mightily to pimp walk.

I also had that double spacing thing after periods drilled into me. Might be a generational thing. oh and i grew up and got my schoolings in the U.S.

@oberon - I think i type at 60 wpm with a 10% accuracy.

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I just had to google this one.

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Q: What is the fastest typing speed on record?

A: Miss Barbara Blackburn holds that record. Her top speed is 212 wpm. She also maintained 150 wpm for 50 minutes once!

I bet that's with automatic word wrap on. Now that's class!

Well, looks like I have a new challenge for this year. Or maybe the next few years. My top speed is about 150wpm. Now if only I can learn to sustain it... I'd be amazed if other coders didn't have similar top speeds.

Programmers don't need to type very fast, though. Most programming languages are relatively terse and autocomplete means that in many cases you only have to type the first couple of letters of any "long" words and the IDE does the rest. Still, at least there are fun ways to improve your typing speed.

Quote: Original post by Oberon_CommandWell, looks like I have a new challenge for this year. Or maybe the next few years. My top speed is about 150wpm. Now if only I can learn to sustain it... I'd be amazed if other coders didn't have similar top speeds.

I think the most likely problem you're going to run into is that you'll have trouble thinking of 150 words to type every minute.

I'm guessing she had everything she needed written down in a notebook or something and was just rewriting it into a computer as she went a long.

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People should just use LaTeX. Let the typography nerds who maintain it do all the work for you :P

I only use latex when i'm just about to penetrate a hot pussy, I usually do all the work by my self but any nerds are welcome to watch how babies are made, if they didn't got it from internet porn.

fuck political correctnes. go watch family guy. and lerarn.

Tbh, at first, I didn't understand what a typesetting package should be good for before making babies. I already surfed on minds of using LaTeX for love letters (there are prolly templates for it, for any mainstream culture). But who needs love letters for the simulation of making babies nowadays. And only after that intense 20sec mind-derail, I understood you mean that modern gut replacement.

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People should just use LaTeX. Let the typography nerds who maintain it do all the work for you :P

I only use latex when i'm just about to penetrate a hot pussy, I usually do all the work by my self but any nerds are welcome to watch how babies are made, if they didn't got it from internet porn.

fuck political correctnes. go watch family guy. and lerarn.

Tbh, at first, I didn't understand what a typesetting package should be good for before making babies. I already surfed on minds of using LaTeX for love letters (there are prolly templates for it, for any mainstream culture). But who needs love letters for the simulation of making babies nowadays. And only after that intense 20sec mind-derail, I understood you mean that modern gut replacement.

Yes. I was thinking about the post for 5 minutes. But I still don't get the last paragraph.

*embarrassed*

Owl is a strange guy. He reads LaTeX, immediately jumps to condoms then sex (and how nerds don't know anything about that kind of thing...) and then tries to mitigate the vulgarity by declaring his independent-mindedness with "fuck political correctness". Presumably, Family Guy is thrown in there since it is also not often politically correct.

But basically, he was drunk.

EDIT: Oh, hey owl...

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Owl is a strange guy. He reads LaTeX, immediately jumps to condoms then sex (and how nerds don't know anything about that kind of thing...) and then tries to mitigate the vulgarity by declaring his independent-mindedness with "fuck political correctness". Presumably, Family Guy is thrown in there since it is also not often politically correct.

But basically, he was drunk.

EDIT: Oh, hey owl...

Ahaaaaaaa
Now I am embarrassed, I'm living under a rock? (Pretty much yes)