Kanji typing

LINK: an article about a speed typist in Japan.

UCHINADA, Ishikawa Prefecture--Don't tell Reira Matsuzuru that typing is just poking away at a keyboard. For the 15-year-old junior high speed typing champ, putting characters up on the screen is a competitive sport. The typical typing speed for adults is said to be about five minutes to type 200 characters, including kanji. But Reira can fire off the number roughly six times faster than that. In January, she punched out 1,265 characters, or about three pages containing 400 characters each, within a five-minute time limit, to nab the national speed typing championship for junior high students held in Tokyo.

June 17, 2020 at 07:00 JST

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Reira Matsuzuru, the winner of a national speed typing championship for junior high school students, demonstrates her typing

So how do Japanese type, since they essentially use 3 or 4 ways to write? Uh, 4 "alphabets"? Yup:


more here, on how to type Japanese:



so why do they continue to use these confusing ways to write? fast forward to 7 minutes and he explains why.