2020-01-08 Wed

World Typing Day is an annual event that falls on 8 January in Malaysia. It is co-organized to promote speed, accuracy, and efficiency in written communication among the public.

Typing Day was conceptualized in Malaysia and first celebrated in 2011. It aims to encourage people to express themselves via written communication and also in commemoration of the Malaysian Speed Typing Contest 2011, which broke two records and the Fastest Typist and the Largest Participation for a Typing Event.

Typing Day will be held on this day is because 8 January is one week after a new year where everyone will have the time to think through and plan what they want to do for the following days and write it down on this day.

The above stamp is Austria’s 1993 stamp depicting a Mitterhofer Typewriter issued 100th Death Anniversary Peter Mitterhofer Austrian Typewriter Pioneer.

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