Typing is his hobby

Bored and nothing to do? Well, instead a being a potato couch, why not start doing something that might be a world record someday? No, you don't need to walk through fiery coals, riding a bike and jump hundreds of feet across, grow very long finger nails and other bizarre stuffs like these. Just follow what Les Stewart has done.

Les Stewart from Mudjimba, Australia, typed from one to one million, all in words and not numbers with his typewriter. Although it seems quite effortlessly, it took him 16 years and 7 months to finish typing 19,890 pages using 1,000 ink ribbons. It is a world record by the time he has finished in November 1998. But, just before he begin with this project in 1983, he has already set a record for typing 1 million numbers!

When asked why he has undertaken this time consuming and repetitious task, Les says that he has little else to do now that he has been classed as an invalid, and can no longer work. Besides that, Les enjoys typing and used to be a police typing instructor before his sickness which meant his withdrawal from the force. Typing an average three pages a day with one finger since April 1982, Les said his secret was to type for 20 minutes on the hour, every hour.

He said he would like to continue attempting world records, but said the judging regime had become much stricter than it had been in the past. “Any athlete will tell you, they’re getting harder every year,” he said. But as Les said, he had probably already done his bit for the Guinness Book of World Records. “I got my first world record in 1983 for typing, which is nearly 25 years ago, and not many Australians have done that, I’m a bit of a one of a kind.” he said.

Source : www.recordholders.org

Tags : Guinness, world book records type typewriter one million 1 million words letters Les Stewart Mudjimba Australia

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