I recently managed to resolve issues with the shift alignment and margin release resetting on my Underwood No. 6 and thus produced this bout of vigorous "typewriter ASMR". This was the third typewriter added to my collection, purchased off of eBay in serviced and cleaned condition other than the alignment issue which IIRC the seller hadn't managed to resolve (it ended up being due to a bent tab at the back of the paper freed tray which I had to bend back, whereby I agree that that was pretty hard to find). The price was thus high, as were my two Underwood No. 5s from my early collecting days when I was obsessed with finding the perfect Underwood that was close, but still not perfect, only to find and miss out on an actual holy grail Underwood later on. Otherwise, with this machine's issues fixed and the fact that it has 12 CPI "Elite" typeface as opposed to 10 CPI "Pica", I have lost my interest in eventually selling this as it can remain as an excellent machine in my quest to approach the speeds of the typing champions of old (oztypewriter.b...) who sustained speeds of 120 to 140 WPM over the course of 30 minutes to an hour with very high accuracy including the delay of carriage returns and switching pages. Here, I typed a fragment from www.marxists.o... (I thought it partially amusing to decide to read and use the Communist Manifesto as practice material), namely around 8,356 keystrokes assuming an average of 5 keystrokes per word, completed in about 19 minutes and 28 seconds (this video only recorded the typing of the second out of two pages), making for a raw speed of 85 WPM, or 75 WPM if I "conservatively" assume I fumbled 200 words (yes, my accuracy is that troublesome, but consider that the key travel is 1.5 cm, feels generally heavier than typing on my portable typewriters which while probably faster jam worse when they do and have trouble staying put, and the platen is hard, causing more characters to print more lightly than they had ought). I generally type with all fingers, pressing the spacebar with both thumbs in some "semi-optimized" alternation that not even I understand, and shift with the pinky of the opposite hand from the character being shifted. I think I actually type a bit faster on my earlier videos on this channel where I am writing from my thoughts and looking at my hands, but inherently pause more while thinking of things to write. Regardless, though this Underwood in its current state is probably capable of the speeds of the champions, it sometimes feels like "hard mode" compared to most of my other typewriters.
The keyboard below the typewriter is a Zeos NMB with clicky black Space Invader switches.
What you can expect to see on this channel:
- Soon: Typewriter, switch, and keyboard collecting, Romantic Era piano performances (Chopin, Liszt, Schumann, Alkan etc.), "perfectionist" Lego builds and mods.
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- In the following years: Independent watchmaking, making a unique typewriters from scratch, "revolutionizing" the concert grand.
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