[chongli]

it feels like cheating to call it the OCR record holder

This is how humans recognize text though. For the most part, humans don’t try to read languages we don’t understand. To deny a computer access to context is like asking a human to transcribe a language they don’t understand.

[mlyle]

I'm a pretty fast typist but if you ask me to transcribe latin text of gibberish or of a language I don't know.... not so fast. A lot of it is how much I have to slow down to be accurate in recognizing characters.

[Someone]

I would guess your typing also gets significantly slower. Mine does; I’ve gone through periods where I had trouble typing the word in because my muscle memory turned it into int.