Woodie Flowers

[AnibaS]

Haha, yea I wonder how they came up with the character/word limit ratio too...a list of the longest words in the dictionary? Our essay was originally over 900 words, and still under the character limit

[Ian Curtis]

Originally Posted by AnibaS

Haha, yea I wonder how they came up with the character/word limit ratio too...a list of the longest words in the dictionary? Our essay was originally over 900 words, and still under the character limit

If my memory from middle school typing class serves, a "word" for the purposes of determining typing speed is defined as 5 keystrokes. Not sure if that was scientifically determined or just decided... (I'm banking on more likely just decided)

[AnibaS]

5x600 is about 3000 characters and then plus spacing still doesn't seem to add up to 6000...it'd be interesting to learn how they determine their numbers though!