Break it down!

is elitist!!

I hear ya. Answer phone, wc break, smoke, hydration, dog....by the time I've gotten back on track, I realize I left someone hangin' 30-45 minutes ago. Never intended to be afk more than a minute or two.

Well I wasn't trying to be a snob or anything, I only type about 60 WPM myself. I was just having some fun by pointing out the all to human quality of exaggeration.

I think Second Life probably *does* have an abundance of good typers as well as a higher than average amount of geniuses for sure. It's only natural considering what you said, and the fact that the original setup in SL actually encouraged genius (as opposed to the fun seekers you see lately).

That being said though, I work in computers also, and also type all day and I am also (slightly) smarter than average. That experience leads me to the conclusion that there may still a lot of exaggeration going on. Almost every tech person I ever worked with for instance was a two finger typer, and you just cant get those speeds that way.

I would add that if there are that many fast typers, it kind of fits into my (contrarian) theory that SL is actually full of mostly RL women (rather than the oft quoted other way around). The only folks I work with who can actually type with all the proper fingers and acheive those kinds of speeds are the secretaries and administrative assistants, i.e. - the girls.