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Here is a cool site that see if you are good at typing. I did the advance and get Nice job (36 WPM and 96% accuracy), I have some troubles because this is not my native written language and I'm using a terrible keyboard, so if the site was in portuguese and I'm with a good keyboard I think I reach 45 + WPM and 98% accuracy.

OBS: They do several tests, I'm sweating and I'm not kidding! I took 1 hour to finish it, but I did some pauses... Anyway if you have some free time: http://www.typingweb.com/tutor/courses/"

I am actually so old that I am among the last persons that was forced to learn typing in school in Sweden. With typewriters no less. And the typewriter was old enough to have the old keyboard - the standard Swedish keyboard is a variety of the QWERTY with our added three letters added. Now days these extra keys are after the "L" key (Ö and Ä) and after "P" (Å) but early it was common to have it added to the ";", "." and "-" keys after "M" instead.

This meant that I still misprint when it comes to these letters on modern keyboards.
Other than that I am quite proud of my typing skills, often I type much faster than younger persons. However, I suck at SMS with T9 instead...

I have also learnd typewriting in the school at the late 60thes. We had a metal plate so we couldn't se the typewriter only the printed text. I think it's good to learned this because you can concentrate on the screen and not on the key-board. And you can type fast.