World Records in Typing

TEST	RESULT	TYPIST	MACHINE	YEAR
1 hr	147 wpm	Albert Tangora	Underwood Standard	1923
1 hr	149 wpm	Margaret Hamma	electric typewriter	1941
1 min	216 wrds	Stella Pajunas	IBM machine	1946
5 min	176 wpm	Carole Bechen	manual typewriter	1959
3 min	158 wpm	Gregory Arakelian	personal computer	1991
????	192 wpm	Natalie Lantos**	PC	1998

** Natalie set the World Record while a student at the
      CompuCollege School of Business (Vancouver, BC )



Guinness Book of World Records, 1998 edition.