The Guiness World Record holder for typing can sustain 150 wpm on a Dvorak keyboard for 50 minutes [0]. Compare this to the average audiobook: "Audiobooks are recommended to be 150–160 words per minute, which is the range that people comfortably hear and vocalize words." [1]
So either you speak really slowly or perhaps you should challenge the world record. I've been touch typing for more than 25 years (though not in Silicon Valley, so maybe I'm lacking some magical force as a result) and can comfortably sustain 60 wpm, bursting up to about 100 wpm. There's no way I can even come close to the rate at which I'm able to speak in a sustained manner.
Growing up I knew a lady at church that definetly typed faster than I talked. She was brilliant, and should have been more than a typist, but that was the era.
I did a stint at the Coroner' office as a intern. The doctor would at 2-3x speech into a tape recorder. I used to think he was trying to impress us by speaking so fast. "The patient had a descending artery over 50 percent occluded. The ears were symmetrical and no disginguising features. Pause Dotty--put a comma between symmetrical, and and)"
Well I don't think he was showing off, just a fast thinker, and knew his job. Always wondered why he was concerned about a person's ears--maybe a pet project?
Anyways, Dotty would type those tapes, and hardly ever used the rewind button. To this day, I think about her typing skills. Nice person too.
So either you speak really slowly or perhaps you should challenge the world record. I've been touch typing for more than 25 years (though not in Silicon Valley, so maybe I'm lacking some magical force as a result) and can comfortably sustain 60 wpm, bursting up to about 100 wpm. There's no way I can even come close to the rate at which I'm able to speak in a sustained manner.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute#Alphanumeric_...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute#Speech_and_li...