Dom Perignon Speed Contests — Hall of Fame

The idea of the Dom Perignon speed contest was born from a need to show that "Fifty words per minute on your palm" was more than just a slogan. When the first contest took place, 50 wpm were reached by 8 contenders and the then unbelievable level of 60 wpm was broken by three contenders, with Marcus McRae reaching close to 65 wpm.

Two years later, in 2000, the idea of 50 wpm had become more commonplace and 18 contenders did at least that in Dom Perignon II. The 60 wpm level was broken 11 times. Then the 70 wpm level was broken by 5 contenders and the 80 wpm level was reached for the first time. It seems that the knowledge you could go faster made everybody fast. Nobody seemed to consider 65 wpm to be any unsurmountable level any more.

The 2002 Dom Perignon III contest confirmed the trend with 50 wpm becoming the average speed — actually, more than half ot the participants did better than that. More than a third of the entries were beyond 60 wpm, and 7 entries did better than 70 wpm.

In the 2004 Dom Perignon IV contest the average speed is now 52 wpm, 15 entries did better than 60 wpm, and 10 entries are better than 70 wpm. Combining all four contests, we now have 42 entries that are better than 60 wpm. The case for fast text entry on a PDA is definitely made.

Best of All Times

Rank Method Time WPM Participant Date
1 Treo Thumboard 28.57s 84.00 Jim Belich Dec 17, 2002
2 FitalyStamp 29.36s 81.74 Faith Perez July 18, 2000
3 FitalyVirtual T3 29.67s 80.88 Jim Belich Nov 5, 2004
4 Fitaly PPC 30.67s 78.25 Jenneth Orantia Nov 25, 2002
5 Fitaly PPC 30.99s 77.44 Erwin Franz Nov 7, 2004
6 Treo Thumboard 31.09s 77.19 Kevin Huang Nov 27, 2002
7Fitaly PPC31.10s 77.17 Eko Pranoto Nov 2, 2004
8 FitalyStamp 31.19s 76.94 Ken Chan July 18, 2000
9 Fitaly Thumboard 31.22s 76.87 Jared Feddersen June 29, 2000
10Fitaly PPC 31.44s 76.33 Erwin Franz Dec 4, 2002
11Fitaly PPC 31.58s 75.99 Hendrik Christian Nov 6, 2004
12Fitaly PPC 32.17s 74.60 Jaren Waldner Oct 10, 2004
13Fitaly 32.28s 74.34 Ian Frank July 12, 2000
14 FitalyStamp 33.20s 73.55 Patrick Yam Dec 20, 2002
15 Fitaly PPC 32.68s 73.43 Sing Tay Dec 8, 2002
16 Atomik Palm 33.55s 71.53 Patrick Yam Dec 16, 2002
17FitalyVirtual NX 33.68s 71.25 Zoltan Heizler Oct 12, 2004
18FitalyStamp 33.74s 71.13 Jonathon Mah Oct 12, 2004
19FitalyStamp 34.22s 70.13 Eric Allen Oct 30, 2004
20 FitalyStamp 34.23s 70.11 Danny Lin June 21, 2000
21FitalyStamp 34.87s 68.82 Will Lau July 15, 2000
22Fitaly PPC 35.07s 68.43 Noemi Barkanyi Oct 10, 2004
23FitalyStamp 35.28s 68.02 Michael Nelson June 23, 2000
24FitalyStamp 35.43s 67.73 Jonathon Mah Nov 21, 2002
25Fitaly PPC 35.83s 66.98 Ein Nov 30, 2002
26MessagEaseST 35.85s 66.94 MC Skoop Nov 29, 2002
27Fitaly PPC 36.59s 65.59 Tan Do Dec 18, 2002
28 FitalyStamp 37.00s 64.86 Marcus Macrae July 25, 1998
29FitalyStamp 37.53s 63.94 Kevin Huang Dec 3, 2002
30FitalyStamp 38.00s 63.20 Henry Schaumburger July 24, 1998
31Fitaly 38.06s 63.05 Will Lau July 13, 2000
32FitalyStamp 38.07s 63.04 Doug Swingle Oct 28, 2004
33FitalyStamp 38.56s 62.24 JohnH June 23, 2000
34Qwerty PPC 38.60s 62.17 Jaren Waldner Oct 7, 2004
35FitalyStamp 38.99s 61.55 Alan Colburn Nov 21, 2002
36Fitaly PPC 39.01s 61.52 Charles Deschênes Oct 20, 2004
37FitalyStamp 39.00s 61.50 Kaiwei July 15, 1998
38Fitaly PPC 39.05s 61.45 Richard Owens Dec 3, 2002
39MessagEaseST 39.57s 60.65 Alex Fung Nov 27, 2002
40Fitaly PPC 39.59s 60.62 Palmsolo Dec 12, 2002
41FitalyStamp 39.71s 60.54 Marianne Kleen Dec 20, 2002
42FitalyStamp 39.64s 60.43 Joel Morris July 17, 2000


In his July 2000 Review of FitalyStamp Will Lau wrote

The slogan goes... 'Fifty words per minute on your Palm' Is this true?
 
Nup - no way. I get 65wpm in ideal conditions. Actually 40 - 50wpm is quite attainable with a little practice.

This is more true than ever.


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