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   [h2 style="text-align: left;"]World Record for Typing Numbers in Words    
[/h2][div style="text-align: left;"][/div]    After 16 years at the typewriter, Les Stewart from Mudjimba (Australia)  is a [font color="#ff0000"]millionaire[/font]. On 25 November 1998,  he reached his goal of typing all numbers from one to one million - in  words (not numbers) on his manual machine. A regular entrant in the  record books since he started his marathon task in 1982 as  therapy following an accident and serious illness. Seven manual typewriters,  1000 ink ribbons, 19,890 pages, 16 years and seven months later, he finished  with the lines[/p] nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine.
  one million.[/p]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    Les is no newcomer to breaking records: Some years ago he broke the  Australian Record of treading water, and then he went on to swim continuously  for 30 hours, establishing another Australian record.[/p]    

How did he avoid repetitive strain injury?

Question #2.......How did he stay sane while doing such a mind-numbing task?  Imagine waking up every day knowing you were going to spend more hours relentlessly typing numbers!

At last, I have found the meaning of life!
 
 [span style="font-family: courier new;"]One million and one.[/span][br style="font-family: courier new;"] [span style="font-family: courier new;"]One million and two.[/span][br style="font-family: courier new;"] [span style="font-family: courier new;"]One million and three.[/span][br style="font-family: courier new;"] [span style="font-family: courier new;"]One million and four.[/span][br style="font-family: courier new;"] [span style="font-family: courier new;"]One million and five.[/span][br style="font-family: courier new;"] [span style="font-family: courier new;"]One million and six.[/span][br style="font-family: courier new;"] [span style="font-family: courier new;"]One million and seven.[/span][br style="font-family: courier new;"] [span style="font-family: courier new;"]One million and eight.[/span][br style="font-family: courier new;"] [span style="font-family: courier new;"]One million and nine.[/span][br style="font-family: courier new;"] [span style="font-family: courier new;"]One million and ten.[/span][br style="font-family: courier new;"] [span style="font-family: courier new;"]One million and eleven.[/span][br style="font-family: courier new;"] [span style="font-family: courier new;"]One million and twelve.[/span][br style="font-family: courier new;"] [span style="font-family: courier new;"]One million and thirteen.[/span][br style="font-family: courier new;"] [span style="font-family: courier new;"]One million and fourteen.[/span][br style="font-family: courier new;"] [span style="font-family: courier new;"]One million and fifteen...[/span]
 
 
   

 Trollio wrote:
At last, I have found the meaning of life!
 
 [span style="font-family: courier new;"]One million and one.[/span][br style="font-family: courier new;"] [span style="font-family: courier new;"]One million and two.[/span][br style="font-family: courier new;"] [span style="font-family: courier new;"]One million and three.

[br style="background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"][span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"]LOL!![/span]
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Boy this throws a wrench in the social system of Austrailia if an "invalid" (which is a terrible word to use) types up to 1 million.