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 No! Not the 'Academic Articles of Proof'! Please,  don't make him do it! For the love of god, admit you're lying about your speed man! 
 admit i'm lying? i was surprised that i actually can type 96 right now, best i ever saw in tests 15 years ago was about 75, but my hardware is quite unusual and designed for low response time (these are gaming switches)

like i said, i know i'm not at the top in speed, at best maybe in the top 10% but 168 is just absurd

do the math

168 means literally 168 times 6 keystrokes per minute

this means ~16.8 taps per second

per fucking second

with how much accuracy?

just say "one thousand" while tapping your finger on the desk and see if you can even fucking count how many times you tapped in that period

i doubt you can hardly even manage 16 taps per second with all 10 fingers taking turns

it's ridiculous, and looks fake 
 I think this is bothering you way too much. Let it go. 

I've seen plenty of people hitting 120-130s on querty setups and much higher on different keyboard layouts. It's likely not fake, and even if it is, why are you wasting so many cycles on it? 
 sorry but 16 key presses per second on one finger per hand is not physically possible unless you are like Neo or something, he posted a screenshot claiming like 154 or 168 or something and that is just outside of reality i'm afraid

either he thinks we are stupid or it's his version of a "joke" either way it's not funny and it's not plausible 
 it's just a stupid and worthless thing to lie about, reflects very badly on his character, and i'm not gonna be gaslit about people typing over 140wpm, that's just bullshit 
 Exactly, and you accuse me of such nonsense, fuck you

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 lol, boomer, i'm gen x, first of all

and i see that the world record is 212

it is possible you are not lying but it's also possible you have something on your computer that lets you type many common words with shorter things like how stenographers do it

the way you are so unreasonably maligning my skepticism is a massive red flag and i just don't think that an honest person would be this indignant

so, go fuck yourself, and all your fanbois 
 i disagree with @JeffG
don't let it go, it quite entertaining 
i would wager money on the outcome of a standardized contest between you two 
 I got 1M sats on my boy utxo