How fast do you type?

I just took your link's typing test and this one. I was 44 wpm and 49 wpm respectively. But 100% accuracy! (Like that really really counts...) And yet I felt like my fingers were flying over the keyboard.

95 wpm seems good to me.

When I've gone on interviews and had to take a stupid typing test, they just wanted you to be able to type at least 50 wpm.

With the test, I'm at 75 wpm. But I'm faster from brain to fingers rather than reading-brain-fingers.

Average speed for most folks is about 30 wpm I believe.

Fast typists, like transcriptionists, max out usually at 100 words per minute or so. 90 is the minimum WPM rate for live broadcast transcription. Highest ever achieved was 216.

Eleventy bajillion words per minute.

53 wpm with 6 errors. But my laptop isn't the best typing setup.

A bad workman blames his tools.

Heh. Tools.

Because a workman has more than one tool.

I thought you were dead.

Yes.

100wpm with 99% accuracy. The missing 1% is because they broke that pesky double dash (--) with a line break and I missed the second dash. I'm a pretty fast typist, but sadly it doesn't help much with writing. I spend all my time trying to figure out what to write.

Oh right. Okay.

Yay, lucidzfl -- you're back! Huzzah! Etc, etc, bollocks, bollocks, whatever.

WRITE NOW YOU USELESS SKIVING SCUMBAG!

/encouraging

How am I supposed to read your stuff if you don't write it?

Erm, a typing test is a lot different than pulling words outta yer butt and typing them down three fingers at a time.

Well, I only use three fingers. Unlike you speshul folks...

95 wpm?!

My typing speed is 63 wpm, for crying out loud!

And the speed with which I write fiction is slower than that - around 2000 words an hour on a good day. So an 80k draft would take me about 40 hours.

And whenever I'm trying to type faster, I make heaps of mistakes. Like now.

I think when I did a typing test last, I had 63wpm with like 8% error rate...

I might do this test later, but I can't be bothered right now. (Especially as I'm making about 4 mistakes per word...)

lucidzfl said:

I've written plenty. Just stopped writing a while back. Haven't finished a novel in over a year...

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Get your fingers working! NAOW

78 with one error.

Impressed by the 95 and 100. (But then I'm easily impressed.)