Remember: Your own best is the top step of your own ladder. It only counts when it is careful, and you only race your own last best.
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The door frameWren's cousin Dax was thirteen, and he typed so quickly that his hands were a blur. Wren tried too, one careful key at a time. "I will never be as quick as Dax," she sighed. Her mother led her to the door frame and marked her height with a pencil. Beside it were older marks, one for every birthday. The marks went up and up, and every one of them was Wren. Each mark raced only the mark just before it. Wren grinned, because she could see how far she had grown. Typists give a best in words a minute, the words typed in one minute. A typist's word is five key presses, spaces too, so fifty key presses make ten words. Your best is the top step of your own ladder, and a best only counts when it is careful. Nothing in this lesson is timed.
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What do the pencil marks on the door frame show?
how far Wren has grownwho is the tallesta race against Dax
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Wren has to beat Dax's best.
TrueFalse
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In words a minute, one word is key presses, and spaces count too.
Words, bests and ladders
Careful comes first, and then the number can grow.
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Look at the table. How many words are 25 key presses?
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A typist makes 100 key presses, spaces too. How many words is that?
10 words20 words100 words
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Circle every run that counts as a real best.
a careful run, a little better than last timea rushed run full of slipsa smooth run with few slipsa run with lines skippeda calm run that beats your last one
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Wren wants a new best. Which best should she try to beat?
Dax's bestthe best typist'sher own last careful run
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Join each thing to what it shows.
1a pencil mark
2your best
3words a minute
4a slow day
Ahow far Wren has grown
Bthe top step of your own ladder
Cnever knocks the ladder down
Dwords typed in one minute
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The Typing Race in the Game Room can time a run against your own best.
TrueFalse
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Wren wrote: A best only counts if it is quick. Which fix is right?
A best only counts when it is carefulA best only counts when it beats DaxA best only counts on a good day
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Stretch: a typist makes 150 key presses, spaces too. How many words is that?
Copy and write
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Copy it. My best is mine to beat.
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Write one small thing you could make smoother this week.
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Answer key · Set A
Your own best
1how far Wren has grown Each mark raced only the mark just before it, and every one of them was Wren.
2False Everybody's marks are their own. Wren only tries to beat her own last best.
35 A typist's word is five key presses, short or long.
45 Every five key presses make one word, so 25 key presses make 5 words.
520 words Five key presses make a word, and 100 key presses make 20 words.
6a careful run, a little better than last time, a smooth run with few slips, a calm run that beats your last one A real best is careful. A rushed run full of slips, or a run with lines skipped, does not count.
7her own last careful run Your own best is the one to beat. Dax's best belongs to Dax.
81-A, 2-B, 3-D, 4-C A mark shows growth, a best is the top step of your ladder, words a minute counts typed words, and a slow day cannot knock the ladder down.
9True Nothing in the lesson is timed, but the Typing Race can time a run and only compares you with your own best.
10A best only counts when it is careful A best only counts when it is careful. A run full of slips is not a best, however quick.
1130 Five key presses make one word, so 150 key presses make 30 words.
13Your own words: a grown-up reads it.
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