How many words have you typed in your entire life?

Feek · 19 Apr 2006 at 13:16

Multiple tens of millions, without a doubt.

K.

VeNT · 19 Apr 2006 at 13:28

been working on PCs since I was about 8-9 or so, back on a 486DX (I think it was DX) with windows 3.1 and works.
did all my school work on it then wrote it up by hand as I wasn't alowed to hand in printed work

so prolly billions of words, plus all the keypresses from games etc

penski · 19 Apr 2006 at 13:38

SEVEN.

Wait...Eight.

Ten now.

Twelve.

Thirteen.

*n

Greenlizard0 · 19 Apr 2006 at 13:59

I've probably typed about as much as i've spoken tbh so tens of millions. I've been using computers since I was 12!

Kreeeee · 19 Apr 2006 at 14:02

penski said:
SEVEN.

Wait...Eight.

Ten now.

Twelve.

Thirteen.

*n

Dude... that joke's already been done.

InsomniaCalls · 19 Apr 2006 at 14:50

Several million easily.

theleg · 19 Apr 2006 at 15:07

I cant type.

booyaka · 19 Apr 2006 at 15:29

a good few million i would suggest due to my job - creating reports for clients etc.

Arcade Fire · 19 Apr 2006 at 15:37

The people actually giving figures:

How the hell are you coming up with a number?!

I'd especially like a response from the guy who said 'billions'

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DRZ · 19 Apr 2006 at 15:59

I have typed 400,000 words into one IRC channel alone in the past 12 months (that the bot there has logged)! Add to that the thousands of words typed here and coursework / programming and I am probably not far wrong stating at least a million in 12 months.

So having been a computer user for about 10 years now I would probably guestimate at 6-8 million words.

Thats a lot of words!

Sherbs · 19 Apr 2006 at 16:13

Arcade Fire said:
The people actually giving figures:

How the hell are you coming up with a number?!

I'd especially like a response from the guy who said 'billions' .

TKC. Ive typed 752,00x this month. Although it records keystrokes, its still pretty accurate.

G|mp · 19 Apr 2006 at 16:15

69 including these ones

VeNT · 19 Apr 2006 at 16:49

Arcade Fire said:
The people actually giving figures:

How the hell are you coming up with a number?!

I'd especially like a response from the guy who said 'billions' .

ok, well lets say I've spent the last 12 years or so typing on my PC in one form or another at home, college, school, work etc.

college 9-4.30 every day (hour for lunch spent on PCs working)
Work 7-12/1(am) (self employed, work as long as I can every day then come home and do my paperwork etc).
1 000 000 000 000 (a billion iirc)
/ 12 years
/ 365 days a year (lets leave the leap years out)
/ 12 hours a day (lets say on average tho I'll bet I've spent longer than that most days.)

gives us 19025875 (aprox) words an hour, so I was way out......

but its loads anyway. prolly typed loads in my sleep too while I wasn't watching..........

big_white_dog84 · 19 Apr 2006 at 17:27

So in summary I am right and he is wrong.

Yewen · 19 Apr 2006 at 17:43

Correct.

2.44 million keystrokes in a month and a bit, so thats about 700k words.