Best World Records of Typing

A. List of World's best Typists

Test	Results	Typist	Machine	Year
1 hr.	147 WPM	Allbert Tangora	Underwood Standard	1923
1 hr.	149 WPM	Maragaret	Electric Typewriter	1941
1 min.	216 WPM	Stella	IBM machine	1946
5 min.	176 WPM	Carole	Manual Typewriter	1959
3 min.	158 WPM	Gregory	Pc	1991
?????	192 WPM	Natalie	Pc	1998

B. World best Typist

Mark Kislingbury, the setter of the Guinness world Record of 360 WPM with 97.22% accuracy, share his method.
I believe everyone should practice reading back, so that you can be good at reading back, you can do far less of it. But always do some so that you will not lose the ability to read back at a good pace.

C. Abhishek Jain - World Typing Champion

"A three times typing champion IAS officer"

While most of the world was preparing for Olympics, Abhishek Jain was hoing for the gold in Germany as the fastest typist in the world.

                                                                       (TIME magazine, USA, August 26, 1996)

At a time when a nation of 100 million people has to be satisfied with just one medal at the OLympics. Sh. Abhishek Jain has made India proud by winning three gold medals in the word speed typing championship, as also holding the unique distinction of possessing the world record of the highest ever speed with accuracy in the 52 year's history of world typing championships.