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  • $\begingroup$ "The rate of typing is nearly the same for random words as it is for meaningful text.", as a touch typist I would be surprised by that. :O Some common sequences flow out of your fingers while others are noticeably slower, but I could just be imagining stuff and I could just be noticing "Letter pairs that occur more frequently in normal language are typed faster than less frequent pairs.". $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 22, 2012 at 12:35
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    $\begingroup$ "Teh" is not always a typo. ;p $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 22, 2012 at 12:40
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    $\begingroup$ @StevenJeuris just to be clear, I think the point is that at least in transcription typing, random letters are much harder to type, but random words (e.g., typing "what happy cat doing is red") are not that much harder to type. $\endgroup$ Commented Jan 23, 2012 at 2:11