Turkish National Keyboard Team Became World Champion by Breaking a Record

National and international competitions are held in many countries around the world regarding fast keyboard use. The most prestigious competition in this field is the United Nations. INTERTENO, that is, it belongs to the Information Technology and Communication Federation. The competition was held between 14 April and 1 June this year. 1490 competitors from 30 countries attended. 

Our National Keyboard Team competes in different branches, one of which is a world record. Won a total of 8 medals, including 3 championships, 2 second places and 3 third places. He managed to become the World Champion of 2020. There were two types of races in the race: native language and multilingual, which included 17 foreign languages. Except for Türkiye, 16 medals were distributed among other countries. Czechia received 9 medals (4 of them fourth place), Japan 2 medals, Italy 2 medals, USA 2 medals and Russia 1 medal.

Nisan Maya Tunçoğlu from Afyon in the 0 - 12 age category and Celal Aşkın from Ankara in the 21 - 99 age category; They became champions by breaking the world record:

Nisan, who studied at Sandıklı Cumhuriyet Secondary School in Afyonkarahisar, net 109 words per minute He managed to break the world record in his age group. This success of Nisan directly affected the overall success of the Turkish National Team. April, during the competition 47366 strokes in 15 different languages did.

In addition, Ankara T.R., competing in the 21 – 99 year old experienced category. Celal Aşkın, one of the officials of the Education Department of the Ministry of Justice, net 153 words per minute He won the championship with a world record in his category. With these two successes, the total world championships of Turkish keyboard experts exceeded 100. A total of 39 of these championships were held by breaking world records.

Other National Team competitors who won medals:

• Rümeysa ÖZEN (Afyonkarahisar/Sandıklı Cumhuriyet Secondary School 2 medals),
• İlyas PAMUKÇU (Isparta Süleyman Demirel University Faculty of Medicine),
• Enes ÖZTAŞ (Afyonkarahisar/Sandıklı Cumhuriyet Secondary School),
• Celal AŞKIN (Ankara Republic of Turkey Ministry of Justice Education Department).

INTERSTENO Türkiye Representation officials: We propose to introduce computer keyboard lessons to the first grades of primary schools in the new academic year in our country.

Turkish officials of INTERSTENO, which has been operating within the United Nations since 1887, made an important request from the Ministry of National Education with the success achieved. In Europe and the USA handwriting lessons were abolished years agoReminding that computer keyboard training was introduced starting from the first grade instead, officials stated that a similar regulation should be made in Turkey.