writing over seventy words a minute net for fifteen minutes. Here you have the case of a girl in less than seven months of regular school work attaining a speed equal to the championship speed of ten or twelve years ago. A speed, too, that when accuracy is considered, completely eclipses the celebrated demonstrators and champions of even ten or twelve years ago, because to-day ten words are deducted for each error, where only one word was deducted in the early contests.
Now, why has touch typewriting advanced so rapidly under the skilled training of the operators by efficiency experts employed by the typewriter companies? Or, to broaden the question a little, why has the average teaching of touch typewriting in good schools advanced so marvelously under the instruction of teachers who have studied the methods employed by the efficiency experts of the typewriter companies?
