How fast can you type? (1 Viewer)

[Juxtatarot]

I was looking through a stack of resumes and noticed that a lot of women still list their typing speed. If you don't know your speed, here's a link to a free online test. I did two test versions and scored in the 50s. Not too bad but not very good.

 

[roadkill1292]

56, way down from my yoot.

 

[Peyton Marino]

just under 100.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

I was looking through a stack of resumes and noticed that a lot of women still list their typing speed. If you don't know your speed, here's a link to a free online test. I did two test versions and scored in the 50s. Not too bad but not very good.

Taking that test one would think I was wearing boxing gloves when I type.

 

[urbanhack]

just under 100.

gonna need to see some video.

 

[Ditka Butkus]

Not very

 

[El Floppo]

I got so nervous... couldn't type. erformanceanxiety:

3 errors adjusted to 67

 

[UniAlias]

111 on first attempt. I think there was a thread for this before, I want to say I was at 120+ back then. I've definitely gotten worse over the years, due to auto-correct/spell-check I'm sure.

 

[JohnnyU]

60 WPM - 58 WPM with 2 typing errors.

 

[glock]

This fast.

 

[Uwe Blab]

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[pats3in4]

83 WPM with 12 errors for an adjusted rate of 71 WPM.

Most of my errors were for double-spacing after sentences since that's how I was taught on an IBM Selectric in the mid-'80s.

 

[glock]

Wait. I wasn't warmed up.

This fast.

 

[El Floppo]

111 on first attempt. I think there was a thread for this before, I want to say I was at 120+ back then. I've definitely gotten worse over the years, due to auto-correct/spell-check I'm sure.

you're hired!

eta:

to... type.

congrats!?

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

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In English, not Swedish.

 

[Ditka Butkus]

111 on first attempt. I think there was a thread for this before, I want to say I was at 120+ back then. I've definitely gotten worse over the years, due to auto-correct/spell-check I'm sure.

Are you a pianist?

 

[lod01]

Solid 39, using my index finger on my right hand and 3 fingers on my left hand. . Yeah, that is how I type.

 

[Peyton Marino]

just under 100.

gonna need to see some video.

you want to see a video of me typing?

 

[Harry Manback]

80 on the dot, adjusted of course.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

just under 100.

gonna need to see some video.

you want to see a video of me typing?

Preferably naked, and wearing a Richard Nixon mask and swim fins.

 

[Grahamburn]

I type 100 words a minute, but it's in my own language. :hedberg:

 

[Peyton Marino]

just under 100.

gonna need to see some video.

you want to see a video of me typing?

Preferably naked, and wearing a Richard Nixon mask and swim fins.

probably can't swing that at work and i'd be working on a laptop keyboard at home, so no go.

 

[Aaron Rudnicki]

91 words, 3 mistyped = 88 WPM

 

[Kumerica]

84 adjusted. I'm gettin' old.

 

[Yankee23Fan]

First time 78. Should be faster.

Second time..... 87. Meh. I was well over 100 in law school. I blame my secretary.

 

[Eephus]

Faster than a quick brown fox

 

[Evilgrin 72]

61 WPM with no errors and I use two fingers, hunt-and-peck style.

 

[JohnnyU]

61 WPM with no errors and I use two fingers, hunt-and-peck style.

That would be entertaining to see.

 

[Evilgrin 72]

61 WPM with no errors and I use two fingers, hunt-and-peck style.

That would be entertaining to see.

People at my office love it. Sometimes people come to my office door and hang out for a minute or two just to watch, then giggle at me. I get all indignant, pop my collar, and tell them to go back to their shanties.

 

[urbanhack]

just under 100.

gonna need to see some video.

you want to see a video of me typing?

Yes

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

I got 86 with no errors, but it felt like a poor showing. I got tripped up a few times and it took me a while to regroup.

 

[Peyton Marino]

just under 100.

gonna need to see some video.

you want to see a video of me typing?

Yes

kind of weird bro.

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

Just did a different one (baseball) and got 93 with no errors.

 

[Ditkaless Wonders]

just under 100.

gonna need to see some video.

you want to see a video of me typing?

Preferably naked, and wearing a Richard Nixon mask and swim fins.

probably can't swing that at work and i'd be working on a laptop keyboard at home, so no go.

I understand your reasons. Thanks for considering it though.

 

[Dentist]

76 - 5 errors - 71 adjusted

I think that's not my real speed though, i think i'm more like the 50-60 wpm type.

sometimes I wish i had a swype keyboard like on my android though, I swear with that thing i'm really fast.. and talk to text is getting pretty fast as well.

 

[El Floppo]

76 - 5 errors - 71 adjusted

I think that's not my real speed though, i think i'm more like the 50-60 wpm type.

sometimes I wish i had a swype keyboard like on my android though, I swear with that thing i'm really fast.. and talk to text is getting pretty fast as well.

love those two features on my samsung.

I keep trying to swype on my ipod... oh well.

 

[Dentist]

76 - 5 errors - 71 adjusted

I think that's not my real speed though, i think i'm more like the 50-60 wpm type.

sometimes I wish i had a swype keyboard like on my android though, I swear with that thing i'm really fast.. and talk to text is getting pretty fast as well.

love those two features on my samsung.

I keep trying to swype on my ipod... oh well.

swype is available on apple now, but apple is garbage

 

[TheIronSheik]

I learned last year that the speed I type my own thoughts and the speed at which I type something that is written are like night and day. When I type on this board, I type probably as fast as my brain can think.

But when I try to type something that is on paper, my speed drops significantly. Not sure why. I don't look at my hands when I type my thoughts, but for some reason, when I look at some other writing, my brain slows down. It's weird.

 

[Maurile Tremblay]

I learned last year that the speed I type my own thoughts and the speed at which I type something that is written are like night and day. When I type on this board, I type probably as fast as my brain can think.

But when I try to type something that is on paper, my speed drops significantly. Not sure why. I don't look at my hands when I type my thoughts, but for some reason, when I look at some other writing, my brain slows down. It's weird.

Reading and typing at the same time isn't a problem for me, but reading and typing and actually understanding what I'm reading would be a major problem. Similarly, I can't read aloud and understand what I'm reading. When I read aloud, I'll get done and have pretty much no clue what I just read until I go back and read it to myself silently.

Different people have different sets of tasks that are problematic for them to do at the same time. (Feynman link.) I don't think it's particularly weird that you have trouble reading and typing at the same time.

 

[Drifter]

80 adjusted on the test. I used to be able to top 100. Probably still could with a bit of practice.

 

[Annyong]

like a billion duh

 

[Psychopav]

86 with 0 errors. And I sit behind a desk typing all day long. It's the new smoking!

 

[Ray Barboni]

Fast enough

 

[AAABatteries]

Isn't that test more like typing/transcribing and not just typing? I felt really slow doing the test, much slower than when I'm typing just my own words. Curious if others feel the same way. I took it several times to get used to the transcribing part but never did much better than around 70 net. I think I would do better if they had audio playing and I typed it.

 

[bushdocda]

44 adjusted on Aesop's fables. that sucked.

53 with just one error on Baseball. Ok back to something less type-y.

 

[Shrugs]

On first try with Aesop's fables, I did 90 with no errors without warming up and going back five words to fix an error at one point. Second try 100 with no errors. Then I kept going for a while to hit 112 just so I could have the highest, though I'm sure UniAlias could best it. I had just one backspace to correct in my 112 run.

 

[VA703]

120 wpm

 

[UniAlias]

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

Will see how high I can get the WPM tomorrow at work, typing on laptop at home not quite the same.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

just under 100.

Niccccce. How's your dictation honey?

 

[ghostguy123]

59 adjusted to 49

Faster if I didn't have to keep looking up and down