You might've once used your fingers to help count the number of letters in a word while spelling,The Sex Factor Episode 8 Playing With The Pros or tried to write the word out on your palm.

But now there seems to be a new generation of kids who type as they spell, and we can't help but be mesmerised.

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Like this effort from Alabama's Erin Howard at the National Spelling Bee on Thursday night, who spelt out "apparentement" -- while typing on a keyboard that isn't there.

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Unfortunately for Howard, she was eliminated for the word klydonograph, a device that records a surge in electrical voltage. She placed 11th in the competition, according to WHNT.

Something tells us Howard won't be the last of the typer-spellers, as computers gradually, but surely become the main way we write -- not a piece of paper.

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