How Fast Can You Type?

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Participants in the discussion share their typing speeds, with many reporting averages in the 50s to low 80s words per minute, while a few achieve speeds above 90 wpm. Several users note that typing random words is more challenging than typing coherent text, affecting their performance. Some mention the impact of distractions, such as music, on their typing speed, while others discuss their methods for correcting mistakes during tests. A few participants express frustration at their inability to improve beyond certain speeds, despite regular practice. Overall, the conversation highlights the variability in typing skills and the factors influencing performance.
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72 with 0 mistakes (first attempt), 76 and 74 were my other attempts, so I guess I average around the low 70s.
 
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Bleh. 45 wpm, 1 mistake.
 
I don't know if that's high or low

283 points
378 char/min
66 correct
1 error
 
At mu fassest spedd I cam typ eone hunerd an fftiy wrdos a minute .
 
jimmysnyder said:
At mu fassest spedd I cam typ eone hunerd an fftiy wrdos a minute .

:smile:
 
I reckon a test like that is harder than typing a passage of text that makes sense. Try this site: http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.php. There are several passages (though some have grammatical errors!). I got 80 and 83 words per minute, with a couple of mistakes each time.
 
255 points
306 characters per minute
53 correct words
0 wrong
I did not understand the story at all

It's fun though, I feel like trying again :smile:
 
First attempt:
80 wpm w/3 mistakes

2nd: 83
3rd: 89

I love speed drills - especially when it just nice easy words like this one!
 
  • #10
77 with 2 wrong
 
  • #11
37 words per minute :cry:
 
  • #12
Some results from me (I didn't write down the first ones, though):

366, 63, 1
402, 72, 2
404, 71, 1
396, 73, 1
435, 82, 2

It looks like 80 is some kind of magical limit. Those who write 80 words without mistakes are gurus.
 
  • #13
223 points
324 cpm
56 correct
2 wrong

Surprisingly, this was fun
 
  • #14
353, 65, 1 was my first run. I didn't realize it was going to give me more words, so I paused after the first screen, thinking I was done. I'll have to try again now that I know how it works.

Happily, I was able to type all of it without looking at either the keyboard or the letters I was producing on the screen...just reading the words I was supposed to type. Two years ago I could not type without looking, so that's pretty good. :)

By the way, is there anyone here who uses a Dvorak keyboard and is really fast with it (not me)? I'd be curious to know what you can score that way.
 
  • #15
Darn, I'm having too much fun. I just lost half an hour. My findings :

- not listening to music increased my rate by something like 5% !
- I'm in the middle 50s, and the fluctuations are definitely less than expected from gaussian statistics (~ 7.5). While my first attempt was 53, I tend to be near 55 now, and I never exceeded 59 not did I perform less than 50.
- I expected the statistics to be worse than gaussian, because I correct myself on the way. It looks like it's a pretty bad idea to delete typos, but I can't help.
 
  • #16
45 with 1 mistake and 46 with 0. That's better than I expected. I still look at the keyboard and that story wasn't exactly reading material that I could easily remember while typing.
 
  • #17
Took two trial runs to "limber up" those fingers :-p

These are results of third attempt:

Speedtest said:
350 points, so you achieved position 5457 of 141103 on the ranking list

You type 448 characters per minute
You have 85 correct words and
you have 0 wrong words
 
  • #18
I have tried 5 times now but the cite crashes with error 405 not for chimps or other lower species.
 
  • #19
wolram said:
I have tried 5 times now but the cite crashes with error 405 not for chimps or other lower species.

:smile:
 
  • #20
Hmph,
first attempt I got 83wpm 0 mistakes second time 81wpm 1 mistake...

The mistake came i think from the last word since it ended before i finished typing the word...

EDIT: 3rd attempt 87wpm 0 mistakes.
4th attempt 91wpm 0 mistakes
I always thought i would be able to type faster...

I think that it's because the words that are in this story are random and don't make sense to me to put together so i have to think about what I'm about to type instead of just typing it out like i would normally do if i were writing something.
 
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  • #21
Sorry! said:
...
Sorry! is fast !
 
  • #22
28 words, 0 mistakes :cry:
 
  • #23
humanino said:
Sorry! is fast !
it's weird how people type SO SLOOOOOW haha. I just redid the test typing what i would think would be extremely slow and i get 69wpm haha.. how are you guys possibly getting under 50 wpm :P
 
  • #24
Sorry! said:
it's weird how people type SO SLOOOOOW haha. I just redid the test typing what i would think would be extremely slow and i get 69wpm haha.. how are you guys possibly getting under 50 wpm :P
I was born without an upper middle part, so I type with my foot. You don't want to know how I read though.
 
  • #25
I used to think i typed fast.
 
  • #26
humanino said:
Darn, I'm having too much fun. I just lost half an hour. My findings :

- not listening to music increased my rate by something like 5% !
- I'm in the middle 50s, and the fluctuations are definitely less than expected from gaussian statistics (~ 7.5). While my first attempt was 53, I tend to be near 55 now, and I never exceeded 59 not did I perform less than 50.
- I expected the statistics to be worse than gaussian, because I correct myself on the way. It looks like it's a pretty bad idea to delete typos, but I can't help.

While I'm typing if I make a typing mistake i automatically know that i have and just hit the backspace that amount of times to get to where the mistake is... without looking at what im' typing though because then you lose concentration on what the next word is :P
 
  • #27
humanino said:
I was born without an upper middle part, so I type with my foot. You don't want to know how I read though.

lol idk if that's truth or not so I'm not sure what my reaction should be. hmmm
 
  • #28
Kurdt said:
37 words per minute :cry:
bone up for the next quiz!
 
  • #29
Appears to me that I have maxed out at 93wpm. And I don't get under 87 now... It's starting to annoy me actually cause I feel like I can't push my fingers or my mind to work any faster than that.
 
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Sorry! said:
Appears to me that I have maxed out at 93wpm. And I don't get under 87 now... It's starting to annoy me actually cause I feel like I can't push my fingers or my mind to work any faster than that.
Are you a pianist Sorry! ? How did you acquire such a dexterity ?
 
  • #31
humanino said:
Are you a pianist Sorry! ? How did you acquire such a dexterity ?

haha :p well i just got 98wmp 2 mistakes. I don't think i can get any faster than that. But in school starting at like grade 3 until grade say 6-7 we had to take typing class. On like all the right type i think. something like that. And then i would always be typing up essays etc. during school. But you i can play the paino as well
 
  • #32
I spend 12 hours+ on the PC per day and I'm still rubbish.
 
  • #33
Sorry! said:
haha :p well i just got 98wmp 2 mistakes. I don't think i can get any faster than that. But in school starting at like grade 3 until grade say 6-7 we had to take typing class. On like all the right type i think. something like that. And then i would always be typing up essays etc. during school. But you i can play the paino as well
How much for a massage ? My neck needs rubbing after all this typing contest :-p
 
  • #34
Sorry! said:
it's weird how people type SO SLOOOOOW haha. I just redid the test typing what i would think would be extremely slow and i get 69wpm haha.. how are you guys possibly getting under 50 wpm :P

My typing is extremely fast. The delay is to find out where the right key is.
 
  • #35
jobyts said:
My typing is extremely fast. The delay is to find out where the right key is.

hahaha

and @humanino
50$ per hour + travel. :)
 
  • #36
First try: I had 101 words (610 characters) per minute but with 14 errors.

I don't like the test for two reasons:
(1) Most of those 14 errors I knew were errors, particularly a burst of 6 or 7 at the very end when my fingers got off. The style of the test doesn't allow me to correct these errors, thus my accuracy was the pits. :frown: (My normal typing really does involve errors and making corrections)

(2) The timing of when it advances to the next paragraph slows me down, and several of my errors were on the first new word as I stumble into it. :frown:
 
  • #37
Is cheating allowed?

I right clicked the page, select "View page source", cut pasted the words.

But it seems like I'm slow in cut pasting too
 
  • #38
Hurkyl said:
First try: I had 101 words (610 characters) per minute but with 14 errors.

I don't like the test for two reasons:
(1) Most of those 14 errors I knew were errors, particularly a burst of 6 or 7 at the very end when my fingers got off. The style of the test doesn't allow me to correct these errors, thus my accuracy was the pits. :frown:

(2) The timing of when it advances to the next paragraph slows me down, and several of my errors were on the first new word as I stumble into it. :frown:

wow now THATS fast. If you could correct those mistakes before u press space... as in catch them while your typing there's no question you wuold be able to get up to 120.

This is how fast i used to think i cuold type about 110 wpm but clearlny not.
 
  • #39
jobyts said:
Is cheating allowed?

I right clicked the page, select "View page source", cut pasted the words.

But it seems like I'm slow in cut pasting too

It's probably quicker to type!
 
  • #40
cristo said:
I reckon a test like that is harder than typing a passage of text that makes sense. Try this site: http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.php. There are several passages (though some have grammatical errors!). I got 80 and 83 words per minute, with a couple of mistakes each time.

On Cristo's test I got 77 wpm with Robert Frost. I made one mistake, but it was because my v key is haing issues. (See?)

I don't touch type properly, by the way. I use three fingers on each hand, except for the pinky on the right side, which I use to hit ' and ENTER.
 
  • #41
I got 66 words per min one mistake
 
  • #42
97 wpm with 1 mistake and the first try. I've gotten pretty good at typing from typera.tk. You have to get exact punctuation and capitalization. Best I've done on that is 107 wpm.

Tried again and got

443 points, so you achieved position 692 of 143626 on the ranking list


You type 611 characters per minute
You have 114 correct words and
you have 4 wrong words
 
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  • #43
Is this question in regard to typing or orgasms?
 
  • #45
97 words per minute. 4 errors. I knew I typed all four errors as I typed them, but since you can't go back after hitting the space bar I couldn't correct them (this doesn't stop me from wasting the time hitting backspace several times in an attempt to go back of course)
 
  • #46
I got 72 wpm on the first try when I got off by a word when the page froze up for a second. Ended up with 7 wrong, which were all in a row.

Second try, and I was going back to fix corrections (missed one i guess). I'll try later and see what happens when I don't go back and edit mistakes.

You type 439 characters per minute
You have 84 correct words and
you have 1 wrong words
 
  • #47
"409 points, so you achieved position 277 of 22908 on the ranking list


You type 542 characters per minute
You have 101 correct words and
you have 3 wrong words"

I hat teping!11!11!
 
  • #48
I'm so fast I can turn out the light and be in bed before the room gets dark! :biggrin:
 
  • #49
My typing speed is best characterized by postings on PF. Write, rewrite, think again, correct, reformat and start over---about 5 words per minute.
 
  • #50
This is fun... 80 wpm 5 mistakes :D haha...
then 85 wpm 2 mistakes... I think I won't be able to sleep!
 

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