What did Les Steward of Australia spend 16 years doing to gain a Guinness World Record?

Les Stewart (Australia) is the fastest person to have typed out the numbers one to one million on a typewriter.

It took 19,990 quarto sheets and 16 years to complete, finishing on December 7, 1998.

When asked why he has undertaken this time consuming and repetitious task, Les says that he has little else to do now that he has been classed as an invalid, and can no longer work. Besides that, Les enjoys typing and used to be a police typing instructor before his sickness which meant his withdrawal from the force. Typing an average three pages a day with one finger since April 1982, Les said his secret was to type for 20 minutes on the hour, every hour