Fast Flying Fingers
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When you "type" on a computer or phone, you press little square keys with letters on them, and each letter you touch shows up on the screen. In the old days of typewriters, each key swung its own metal stick against the paper to press ink in the shape of that letter, but now it's all electronic. And with keys that don't have to be hit hard, people can type really fast. Typing world records are measured in words per minute (wpm), where a "word" is just the next chunk of 5 letters. The record for typing on a smartphonewas set in 2011 by Grace Pak, who typed 264 words in under a minute on those tiny keys. And Manoj Penmetsa typed all 26 letters of the alphabet in order in just over 2 seconds, which is crazy fast. As you can see from typing competition videos like this one, people's fingers move at blazing speed (jump to the 2-minute mark to watch). If they can also tie their shoes that fast, they're way ahead of the rest of us.
