[Closed] How fast can you type?

third'uv'a word per min

69wpm
17 keystrokes too many
3 wrong words
Better than 88.44%

That was with my work laptop resting on my knee. I might have a bash when I get home to my proper (mechanical!) keyboard.

not giving it a go until I get both hands working

You can do it single-handed.

Not

Very

yes but the numbers will be very bad.... especially if if uses too much of the left side

63 wpm, 85%.

not too bad for a number-juggler.

44 67%, not bad for a club fisted engineer.

Pretty sure i could do better, i can scribe review meetings typing out the report as people talk.

60 wpm Advance, 61 wpm normal.

I spend more time thinking than typing 🙂

58wpm after a couple of tries - first one was terrible and a film advert popped up but the clocked kept running.

Apparently that's 81% of all users.

Bit of an irrelevant test though for me, as normally when I type (like now) I am glancing at the keyboard (which is probably frowned upon?)and typing the words that I am thinking of, rather than typing words on a screen.....

quite pleased with almost a word a second though.....(the words are all quite short in that test though)...

43 wpm and seemed to be typing like mad - no idea how you type faster.

Its probably like riding, the smoother you are the faster you go rather than hacking around frantically mashing the keyboard.

I have a golden rule of never typing faster than I can think. As a consequence I type rather slowly with one finger of one hand.

Words per minute (WPM) 49
Keystrokes 255
(243 | 12)
Correct words 48
Wrong words 2
You are better than 73.21% of all users (position 42336 of 158033 - last 24 hours)

That's me on the limit! But first and only go. I think I may be a little faster if what I was typing something that made sense and was predictable, but not by much.

Seem to be hitting around 50wpm on that. I too think I'm a tiny bit quicker when typing my own words (can't touch type so need to see the keyboard rather than read-type-read-type-etc.).

Still WAY faster and WAY more legibly than I can write these days.

72 WPM
90% accuracy

Happy enough with that.

forgot to add to mine - 100% accurate, maybe I value accuracy over speed... typical software engineer...

Prr6 duxkibgb gsat to be hunest

Words per minute (WPM) 41
Keystrokes 316
(203 | 113)
Correct words 42
Wrong words 20

Terrible...i kept typing out the word that came after the word i should have been typing 😀

22 WPM 100% accurate

I'm the tortoise in this particular race...

49wpm

I think its probably easier to type the words in your head than read random words from a screen though.

Anything above 60 is pretty good and significantly faster than handwriting

Words per minute (WPM) 33
Keystrokes 177
(163 | 14)
Correct words 31
Wrong words 3
You are better than 48.69% of all users (position 81127 of 158105 -

I had one go

someone got 188 😯

42wpm, less than I thought. Although I can type quicker here rather than random words.

Words per minute (WPM) 46
Keystrokes 243
(232 | 11)
Correct words 46
Wrong words 2
You are better than 70.84% of all users
(position 46119 of 158132 - last 24 hours)

Dammit ... I am going to beat all those records ....

i'm rubbish

tried it 3 times, 33 32 34 wpm 😕

My excuse - I'm an engineer 😀

Edit: just got a 38 😆 , at least that's above average

Words per minute (WPM) 35
Keystrokes 180
(175 | 5)
Correct words 32
Wrong words 1
53.65%

I'll never be a typist

I think its probably easier to type the words in your head than read random words from a screen though.

Yes. I think I can type a bit faster than that - for me I suspect the bottleneck might've been the comprehension of random words. I kept typing words that would naturally have followed other words and looked vaguely like what was on the screen.

Oli, that's abysmal! I just tried it again and got:
73wpm
Keystrokes 380 (367/13)
2 wrong words
Better than 90.54%

Definitely going to have try when I get home. I agree with people saying it would be easier with full sentences rather than a random order of words.

107wpm
33 keystrokes too many
6 wrong words
Better than 98.72%

First attempt. What do I win? 8)

Second attempt:
115wpm
24 keystrokes too many
4 wrong words (as I realised I could correct them)
Better than 99.33%

You could try simply typing real text in and see what it says. Of course it'd give you a large score of wrong words but should still record the wpm.

The problem with that approach for me is that I think I type faster than the speed of thought (not sure whether that says more about my typing or my thinking!) so I'd have to have a block of text pre-written to copy down.

so I'd have to have a block of text pre-written to copy down.

So - open another browser window with a news article or something. Use the Sun so the words are nice and short 🙂

Hdbdujwhdjxi niche June he Shak ss......

I'll get my coat.

Not very fast but I didn't expect to be, not a single error though which did surprise me.

Words per minute (WPM) 42
Keystrokes 212
(212 | 0)
Correct words 40
Wrong words 0
You are better than 65.13%

Words per minute (WPM) 73
Keystrokes 372
(367 | 5)
Correct words 71
Wrong words 1
You are better than 90.42% of all users