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[Tjalfe]

surely you mean WPM, not WPS

[Fred H]

@tjalfe
Yes.
Error on error
Edited now.
Time for me to go sleep...

Fred

[Greebe]

100 wpm is about a normal deliberate speaking speed (e.g. a public speaker). How can you write down faster than 30 wpm? Shorthand doesn't work with morse code and, in any case, few shorthand writers can go faster than 80 wpm.

I dated a very sharp Attorney's secretary once upon a time who did (typing) @150+ with no errors... to watch her in action was shear poetry in motion and jaw dropping

[Fred H]

did (typing) @150+ with no errors...

Some HAMs used typewriters for faster receive and write down the Morse codes.
Sometimes the typewriter method was faster than a handwritten copy.
The 150+ must have been characters/minute. (Uh, my earlier mistake caused such a confusion)
Now, for a time ago a lot of HAMs are using computers to send and receive Morse codes.
This method is very common in meteor scatter *** communications, when the messages must be sent in very, very short time. The available time for a QSO (contact) is in order of fractions of a second.
I never tried this.
To receive Morse codes with computers is a tricky thing. If the code stream has uniform speed than the computer recognizes up to 95-100% of codes. If the message is sent by hand-keying with varying speed, the computer is not so smart to recognize the code.
Morse codes don’t include any sync codes, like e.g. RTTY (Radio Tele TYpe) with the 5 bits Baudot code, or like other sync coded communication. The human ear-brain-hand chain “decoder” is still superior any computer in case of telegraphy.
For a long time ago, in the good old time of DOS, I made some transmit and receive programs for CW (Morse telegraphy) and RTTY. The RTTY worked very nice and been used by a lot of HAMs, but the Morse decoder program never worked as planed.

***[Edited] http://www.qsl.net/k0sm/ms.htm

Fred

[az]

I just read that the fastest typer, a 19 year old german, does 716 cpm.

AZ

[Fred H]

800 WPM

See the ***(Edited)link at my previous post.

Of course it is another area, with the "machine-sent" telegraphy.
Btw, did you hear how such a 800 WPM sounds?
It sounds just ping

Fred

[Fred H]

The storry of the fastest telegraphist:

In the school (it was in another part of the World in another past era)
They tried to teach us that the radio was discovered by Popov, not by Marconi.
They said that the best man in sports and everything were their people.
Their radio amateurs always said “…my transmitter is ‘fourty watt’….” but they run hundred of watts

Than we discovered a joke: “The tallest dwarf is their dwarf.”

Fred