Typewriting Speed Contest (1938)

[@double..5428]

Bro how loud offices would've been back then tho

[@GoldLeafPress]

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!

[@Just_LH]

Imagine letting them use the computer They will never touch the Backspace

[@blueggplant]

And the computer will broke since they slap it instead of press enter button.

[@carltrotter7622]

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!

[@Colz_]

Now I don't type nearly as fast as the people in this video but as a typewriter collector I have found I type faster on a manual typewriter rather than an actual modern day keyboard.

[@carltrotter7622]

@@Colz_ I think it depends on the typewriter. On the much more advanced 50s/60s/onwards models where there are no dangerous gaps between the keys where you can cut yourself, and the mechanism is much smoother, I'm sure it's much less bothersome.

[@Colz_]

@carltrotter7622 Yeah, with some of my typewriters, the underside of the keys are sharp and rigid, while others will be a bit more smoothed out.

[@jeremynv89523]

​@@carltrotter7622I'm not sure I totally agree with that, Mr. Trotter. I had to give away a Royal Empress because my fingers kept sliding between the keys. For perspective, I trained on Royals and Selectrics in the 1970s.

[@colinstack4549]

my teacher competed in this

[@hilosmilos1745]

ur teacher was alive since the 1930s? dam

[@solce809]

your teacher is 100 years old?

[@ganeshkumargulli8769]

Very happy to see this 👏👏👏

[@iammituraj]

The winner looks like he's straight out of some Bond movie

[@LiMon714]

এটা দেখে আমার মনে হচ্ছে এই প্রতিযোগিতায় অংশগ্রহণ করা মানুষ গুলার কেউই হয়ত আজ বেচে নেই😢😢 মানুষের জীবন কত সংক্ষিপ্ত 😢😢

[@muntasirmahamud3395]

😢

[@vladislavkaras491]

Thanks for the video!

[@joshuamoon6170]

"Yes, you heard"

[@kiranmohanta2430]

0:15 newton

[@JudahMaccabee_]

back when an office job gave you arms of a gorilla by the end of a working day.

[@yurilopezveliz6024]

Que maestros que nivel!

[@istankimjong-unbutcantstan3398]

So glad those days are gone....

[@user-ly5ev6hx8e]

Why

[@zerbutterftw]

Yeah but I still find typewriters interesting.

[@Chernobypi67]

Wonderfull machine

[@sbjvlog]

Awesome ya, from India, powerfulTamilnadu

[@Zaque-TV]

Yesss you heard

[@mathshouldntdie000epic]

Wait why did all narrators sound the same back then?

[@mikeyjohnson5888]

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.

[@krunkle5136]

Sick burn at the end haha.

[@issoulinux8959]

Damn son

[@kittykat4313]

who'd want to be a confidential secretary?

[@alpzepta]

This is what Typeracer website looks like in 1938

[@imrustyokay]

Stenographers: AMATEURS

[@edipuma2016]

coool

[@phamminhtriet7185]

If the typewriter jammed, what do they do?

[@TheM1988z]

Wow imagine you make mistake

[@chiimumango3979]

1930's Esports

[@lizaambro1657]

Mechanical engineering

[@mrsaikia0078]

👍

[@RAJESHSINGH-ix8wi]

👌👌👌

[@gradientO]

damnnn

[@charliedrosario999]

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.

[@vinter5256]

with finger skills like that....

[@Blind_Hawk]

Twitter uses be like when you make a joke.

[@SaumBodhi]

💀

[@nivedmorts]

Somebody please tell me I'm wrong, but did the announcer say, "The winner is a man, and business gentlemen prefer blonde"?

[@earthtravel2941]

Who is watching this video before their typing exams 😃

[@noteven300wpm]

YALL HAVE TYPING EXAMS?!

[@fyodorx5428]

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.

[@FennixGamingYT]

YES. THANK YOU! I HATE THE HOME ROW METHOD!

[@GTLugo]

tbf, typing on a typewriter and typing on a keyboard are pretty different.

[@FennixGamingYT]

@@GTLugo True, but the difference is that you can transfer the typewriter method over to pc, but not the other way around.

[@belphegor_dev]

The most stupid and ignorant comment I've seen all day.

[@ScatterbrainFilms-k8o]

Of course the man won

[@S0nyToprano]

A man being a secretary in 1938? Laughable even today in 2024. Back then? I’d have to wonder their gender preference in partner 🤷‍♂️

[@belphegor_dev]

You're laughable.

[@andreasfernandez1548]

Boomers vs GenZ 5 - 0

[@grassytramtracks]

I'm of the generation that the first time I saw a typewriter I wondered 'hmmm, that's a funny computer with paper coming out of it'