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1 | 1 | # About
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| -This is a plugin for Plover to display your typing speed, in words per minute, |
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| -as you type. Words per minute is calculated in one of two ways: |
| 3 | +This is a plugin for Plover to display your typing speed as you type, in either |
| 4 | +or both of words per minute or strokes per minute: |
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| 6 | + * **Words per minute**: Shows the rate at which you stroked words in the last |
| 7 | + 10 and 60 seconds. |
| 8 | + * **Strokes per minute**: Shows how efficiently you stroked words in the last |
| 9 | + 10 and 60 seconds. Lower values are more efficient, e.g. a value of 1 means |
| 10 | + that on average it took you one stroke to write out a word. |
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| 12 | +A word is defined in one of three ways: |
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6 | 14 | * **NCRA**: The [National Court Reporters Association](https://www.ncra.org/)
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7 | 15 | defines a "word" as 1.4 syllables. This is the measure used for official
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8 | 16 | NCRA testing material.
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9 | 17 | * **Traditional**: The traditional metric for "word" in the context of
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| - keyboarding is defined to be 5 characters per word, including spaces. |
| 18 | + keyboarding is defined to be 5 characters per word, including spaces. This |
| 19 | + is compatible with the notion of "word" in many typing speed utilities. |
| 20 | + * **Spaces**: A word is a whitespace-separated sequence of characters. This |
| 21 | + metric of course doesn't take into account the fact that some words are |
| 22 | + longer than others, both in length and syllables. |
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| -It looks like this: |
| 24 | +The meters look like this: |
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16 | 29 | # Installation
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