"ZZZPK" .es.it.net wrote
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"Caveat Lector" wrote:

: In our area -- VE exam tests are sent at 14 to 15 wpm with the spacing
: adjusted to 5 wpm overall.

so its not 5wpm then ?


There are two ways to define the 5 WPM. One is slow dots and dashes at the
rate of 5 wpm. The other way is to send each character at a higher speed
but spaced out. The same number of characters are sent in one minuit. Then
you have to count the numbers and punctuation as 2 characters each but lets
not get into that. I was thinking the standard way was the 13 to 15 wpm
sending with long 5 wpm spacing.

When I took the 13 wpm code test the VE asked about perferance as to
character speed. No one spoke up so I asked for 18 or 20 wpm characters
(don't remember exectally which). Made it easy for me as that was the way
I had been doing most of the work as 20 wpm for the Extra was my goal.