Question
The Guinness Book of World Records revoked Barbara Blackburn’s record for this task after failing to recreate it on an episode of Late Night with David Letterman. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this task, at which the fastest humans can exceed 200 words per minute using the QWERTY layout.
ANSWER: typing
[10m] Blackburn was employed to promote this English keyboard layout, patented by its namesake and William Dealey. This layout puts vowels and common symbols on the left, but common consonants on the right.
ANSWER: Dvorak [or Dvorak keyboard layout]
[10h] In 1946, Stella Pajunas-Garnand achieved a speed of 216 words per minute on an electric typewriter made by this company. This company originated from the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company.
ANSWER: IBM [or International Business Machines]
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Summary
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ Waterloo | 10/28/2023 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Harvard) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (Mainsite) | 10/21/2023 | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl (UK) | 10/28/2023 | Y | 5 | 22.00 | 100% | 60% | 60% |
| 2023 Penn Bowl @ UNC | 10/28/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Library of Babel School of Continuing Studies | Toronto Weary | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |