Ultimate Nerd Fighting Championship 2007
So, we threw down at work the other day. It was a hard core and OG (Original Geek) tussle. There are terminals near the human resources area that are set up with typing programs to measure Words Per Minute. I don't even remember who originally threw down the gauntlet, but all the geeky guys on my team agreed to the challenge. We comandeered one of the terminals and went in pairs: One person would act as an observer and would record the results of the other, and then they would exchange positions.
The typing program (or, at least, the challenge with which I was presented) was a split-screen affair. It had one of Aesop's Fables at the top and room to re-type it as quickly as possible on the bottom. The tricky part to this test was that you could only backspace within your current word. If you made a typo and hit space, you were screwed and stuck with it (thus hurting your final score). I think that part of the testing made everyone type a lot more slowly and carefully than they normally would. I normally zing through my typing without a care in the world, and I often won't spot an error until much much later. I made a couple of mistakes early on and had to slow my pace to ensure that I wouldn't make any more. Still, I wound up 67 WPM with a 98% accuracy rate and trounced the competition.
Hail to the King, baby.