do you take a dictation off of a printed page or through your uh ears uh i take it through uh
through my ears yeah now do you do you understand what's going on do you comprehend what's going on
or do you just type it you have to understand it in order to be accurate and correct so you
know everything that you type basically okay all right i'll tell you what we're going to
do let me bring out the barber the world's fastest typist is going to go up against
the fastest typist we have on our staff ladies and gentlemen the hardest working production
assistant in american television say hello to barbara gaines barbara come on out here
let me help you with that typewriter barbara
uh this is barbara's first time on our show and we're happy you decided to help us now
how fast can you type a minute barbara uh i'm really nervous i probably won't be able to
type but what's your best time uh 85 85 those are huge buttons you have one you're sweating
okay barbara blackburn barbara games ladies now uh
she's one of our guests be a little more happy nice to meet you nice to meet you
she came to us all the way from salem oregon all right here's what we would like you ladies to type
for one minute we'll have a clock on the screen and from the official baseball rules 1984 edition
they will be typing tonight section 8.05 the bach rule
ladies are you ready on your mark begin typing one minute here
starting out with the block rule they have it in front of them
uh
okay
you know you know i guess maybe i forgot to explain that you know
you didn't you didn't have any paper in there i realized that i know
well it's i guess it's easy to say you're the fastest and no way to prove it is there
that's that's the most peculiar thing now do we have time to load it up and
try it again or is this okay barbara put some paper in there i'm sorry um
yeah barbie you won that one all right best two out of three
okay here we go again ladies begin typing no paper that's just a darndest thing
i'm sorry is that a colon or a semicolon
all right we have a half a minute left and the winner receives the lovely dinette set
all right we're getting uh under 20 seconds remember they're typing the walk rule section 8.05
1984 edition of the official baseball rules all right five seconds remaining
that's it
okay all right tell you what ladies come on over here we'll do a commercial then we'll
take a look at the results come on over here folks it didn't uh something very strange has
happened barbara gaines our own uh production uh assistant did a very nice job i'm not sure how
many words exactly but she acquitted herself quite admirably barbara nice job thank you very much now
barbara figure out how many words you got there in a minute now now barbara blackburn
something happened here uh through no fault of your own i guess we get bum
equipment or something let me just read the first sentence gentilly i also olusol
in i am mock vets knit pintro vitneristic t-plane what now what exactly happened there
that we screwed something up there's something something happened to the typewriter while it was
while it was here um because you know this smacks of organized crime if you ask me i think it does
no but in all fairness to you apparently we had the wrong ball on your machine or something you
know something has happened it was all right uh when i was supposed to be here last night yeah
well we'll we'll get it to fix and you come back but for right now barbara gaines is the world's
fastest time barbara thank you very much i'm sorry about the trouble we'll come back and do it again
we'll do it we'll do it again we'll be right back uh ladies and gentlemen