如果打字是功夫，那我便是獨孤求敗 I want to meet someone who can beat me at typing

我大概八歲的時候，剛接觸電腦沒多久，我的叔叔問我說：〞從ABC開始一直打到Z，看你打得多快？〞我打得很慢，可是，從那天開始，我多了一個可以練習的新技巧。

When I was eight years old and just started using computers, my uncle asked me, how fast can you type from A to Z? I did it extremely slowly. But, from that day onwards, I had a new skill that I can practice.

十四五歲的時候，開始玩一個叫做MUD(multi user dungeon)的遊戲。這遊戲有點像現在的MMORPG,但所有你要做的事，都必須用打字的，比如你可以打"kill monster"殺怪物或"cast fireball"開炮。我的打字速度也因為玩這遊戲而慢慢變快。

When I was 14 or 15, I started playing MUD (Multi User Dungeon). This was a text-based MMORPG game, so everything you did you had to type. If you want to attack a monster, you have to type kill monster. If you want to cast a fireball, you have to type cast fireball. Because of this game, my typing speed improved tremendously.

十七八歲以後，我跟朋友聊天都是用MSN或ICQ。因為常常用電腦打字聊天, 打字速度也越來越快。那時因為網路不夠快，比較少用語音，所以必須用打字。現在大家可能用語音就夠了，不用打字，所以打字速度很難進步。

Starting from when I was 17 or 18, I started meeting new people through ICQ or MSN. Because they were on the desktop, I had to type all my chats. Because the internet wasn't fast enough for voice / camera chat, I had to type. Nowdays, you wouldn't do that because you can simply use the phone.

有一天，我媽說，她打字要60(words/min, 一分鐘打60字)才能找到工作。我說，我來試試看。結果測試出來竟然一百多。在同個測試軟體多做幾次測試，現在可以打到140字/分鐘。

One day, my mum said she needed to get 60 words/minute on a typing exam to get a job. I tried it myself and got over 100. With a bit of practice on any typing test, I can now get to 140 words a minute.

這大概都要感謝我叔叔，在我八歲時問我說，A 打到 Z 要打多久。我也做了一個YOUTUBE影片告訴每個人，用這個方法可以增進打字速度。這個影片竟然達到了330萬個點閱數。

Linking back to the start, I should thank my uncle for telling me about typing from A to Z. I made a Youtube telling everyone this is how I got so fast. This video alone has 3.3 Million Views, if you want to check it out