There is a study that claims humans only process information at 10 bits per second. Ok, that's obviously bullshit. Let's assume they meant that that was just the actionable throughput. (i.e. belief formation and decisionmaking.) We can assume that people can still interpret enormous amounts of bits or direct many disparate parts of their body simultaneously.
If that 10 bits figure is accurate, then the maximum speed that a human could type random letters is a little more than 2 per second, or a little less than 130 letters per minute. Does anyone know if this is accurate? Are there any studies on humans typing RANDOM letters? (Not words?)
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