Media appearances Apple IIc comercial īlackburn starred in a commercial for the Apple IIc, released in 1984, which offered a switchable Dvorak-QWERTY keyboard. In May 1985, the Seattle Times reported that Blackburn said she had "attained speeds of 212 words a minute for a brief time" using an Apple computer keyboard and the Dvorak layout. : 1m07s In her Apple Computer commercial, filmed at the same time as the Letterman appearance, Blackburn says that she can type "nearly 200" wpm using the Apple IIc she is advertising. ĭuring her Late Night appearance on Janushe claimed to have achieved 170 wpm on minute tests, and 200 wpm using a computer. In a January 1985 story in the Los Angeles Times, Blackburn said she had recently reached 196 wpm.
The Associated Press reported Blackburn achieving a speed of 194 wpm in October 1984 using the MasterType typing game. īlackburn's records were removed from the 1986 edition of the book, with Guinness stating that "records on electric and computer-driven typewriters cannot be compared with any accuracy." Fastest speed
Īccording to the Guinness book, Blackburn "can maintain 150 wpm for 50 minutes (37,500 key strokes) and attains a speed of 170 wpm using the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard". Her records were accepted into the book without an official test a Dvorak layout advocate lobbied on her behalf without her knowledge. Barbara Blackburn of Lee's Summit, Missouri" and in the later years as "of Everett, Wash".
Guinness Book of World Records īlackburn was included in the Guinness Book of World Records starting in 1976, where she is credited as "Mrs. In 1984, the Chicago Tribune reported her typing speed at 180 wpm on a Dvorak keyboard. In 1972, Technical Communication reported her typing speed at 150-160 wpm using the Dvorak layout. ĭuring WWII, according to Blackburn, she was timed by a "Navy girl" to type at 138 wpm on a Royal Standard typewriter with Dvorak keyboard. She was trained as a demonstrator of the simplified keyboard while she attended Huff Business College in Kansas City. Typing Dvorak keyboard layout īlackburn began typing with the Dvorak keyboard layout in 1938, taking about three weeks to switch to the new layout. īlackburn was popularly recognized as the "world's fastest typist" and made media appearances to exhibit her typing speed and the Dvorak layout, notably appearing in a 1985 episode of Late Night with David Letterman and in a television commercial for the Apple IIc.
Blackburn's self-claimed peak speed, in 1985, was 212 words per minute. The Guinness Book of World Records included her speeds amongst others in the "Typing, Fastest" category of the 1976 –1985 editions, where she was listed as able to "attain a speed of 170 wpm" and "maintain 150 wpm for 50 minutes". Barbara Clay Henley Blackburn (Septem– April 18, 2008) was an American clerical worker recognized for her fast typing speed using the Dvorak keyboard layout.
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