Today I became the fastest 1-finger typist in the world (at least according to Guinness World Records). I typed “Guinness World Records has challenged me to type this sentence using one finger in the fastest time” in 24.27 seconds besting the previous mark of 28 seconds by well over 10%. With 99 characters, that comes out to 49 words per minute… with 1 finger! That’s faster than I could type with 10 fingers until high school. (And it doesn’t account for the capital letters which
I practiced casually over a few months
It took me two tries (on the first I had 2 typos even if it was a bit faster). I’m pretty excited to break 25 seconds even if I think I could go just a little bit faster. Here’s to setting records all over the country and the world!