Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Beer, speech input and typing...

Forgot to mention the bet wtih Sergey during the beer last week. We had a bet what is faster for human to communicate information out: speak or type on the keyboard. I voted absolutely for speak. Sergey thought otherwise.

We had a test. For a roughly 120-words paragraph from the beloved "Innovator's Solution" book, it took 35 seconds for Sergey to read it all out. The typing? It was only half-way thru after 1 minute and 5 seconds.

Ok, this further proved my theory. It's much easier for human to use speech to communicate out. Well, this is well-known. Child starts to speak when they are 2 or 3 years old. They started to read/write around age of 5?

2 comments:

SN said...

Well, you know… that had to be tested. ...

I think we have experimentally established that under influence of a few beers a specific person (me) can read faster than I can type. However, I am sure that generalization is also true: average person reads faster than types…

Ben Jiang said...

good, this test will certainly be the highlight points of my thesis ;).