How fast can you type the alphabet?

[Lobsang]

http://playfreeonlinegames.eu/playon...ealphabet.html

Me: 9.01 first go.

[Jragon]

4.42

I need to work on that. To be honest I'd probably do better with words since the alphabet is somewhat awkward to type on a qwerty keyboard.

[capybara]

About 7 seconds tops-- when I hit Q and R my brain wanders around a bit confused for a while.

[Lobsang]

Mine did too. Jragon I think that's the idea.

[gang green]

I can do it in less than a second.

Oh. You mean in order.

Screw that.

[Jragon]

Originally Posted by gang green

I can do it in less than a second.

Oh. You mean in order.

Screw that.

Well, I got .02 with a macro, does that count?

[Kal]

9.15 glancing at the keyboard; 12.41 just looking at the screen; 15.16 with my eyes closed.

[Chefguy]

6.47. Not bad for a geezer with arthritis.

[BobLibDem]

6.18.

[RandMcnally]

5.7. Like above said, I'd be a lot faster if it were words and not just letters.

[Covered_In_Bees!]

8.33 seconds for me on my first go. Looking directly at the input box.

Q fucked me up though. Easily cost me half a second. I mean look where the damn thing is! My left pinky of all fingers is supposed to hit that damn key?

[QuercusMax]

4.5s first try. 3.38s with a little practice.

I'll have to try at work on my Kinesis Ergo keyboard, see how fast I can get. I can type the first half of the alphabet in about a second, but the second half is much tougher, for some reason.

[Ludovic]

the alphabet. Around 1 second.

[ErinPuff]

6.37 on my first go, but I only got three hours of sleep last night.

[Mahaloth]

5.01, but it's a bit lame considering I can type actual words a lot faster.

Neat test, though.

[tr0psn4j]

6.3 not bad I guess.

[fubbleskag]

i can't quite break into 3s. oddly, i do this faster watching the screen vs watching my fingers.

[pulykamell]

4.98, first try. 3.89 on my fourth try. I keep getting tangled from the letter "q" to the end.

[pulykamell]

3.32 seems the best I could manage for now.

[Mosier]

4.41 first try, 4.03 second try (with a mistake),

[Snowboarder Bo]

4.42 first go.

[pravnik]

8.37 after several tries. I really should learn to type.

[Max Torque]

First try, 4.26. And I didn't even feel like I was trying too hard.

Next try, 3.67.

[torie]

9.99 seconds. I thought that was pretty good until I read some of these scores. Damn.

[Icerigger]

Two finger typing only, 12 seconds. The times listed are amazing. How about backwards? In first grade we learned the alphabet song in reverse as well so to this day I can say it backwards as fast as forward. Typing it was 12 seconds as well.

[Munch]

6.00s on the first try.

[KneadToKnow]

5.06 first try.
3.71 second try. Sometimes I forget which is x and which is z.

[pulykamell]

Originally Posted by pulykamell

3.32 seems the best I could manage for now.

2.70 on my desktop keyboard.

[GilaB]

6.34 on first try, 4.77 by my third, but I seem to have stalled out around there. My best out of ten or so tries is 4.64.

[notfrommensa]

Laptop keyboard 7.83 seconds.

I think I can do better on regular keyboard.

[Waenara]

4.37 on my first try. 3.8 with a few practice runs.

I find it easier looking at the screen than at the keyboard - since I used to do data entry for work and didn't look at the keyboard while working. It throws me off.

[SCSimmons]

5.69 first try. Was able to get it down to 4.82 with a bit of practice ...

[KellyCriterion]

5.06 on the first go, wonder what I can get this down to with some practise..

[KellyCriterion]

3.85 on about try #20. That's enough for now.

[SCSimmons]

<disregard>

[Little Nemo]

A two-fingered 9.44 seconds on my first attempt. 8.16 on my second.

[KellyCriterion]

3.44 after a bit more practise.

[rowrrbazzle]

first try - 4.64
best - 3.86

[CAT=^..^=]

I got 6.6 the first time, with no errors. I got worse each time I tried it!

[robardin]

Originally Posted by fubbleskag

i can't quite break into 3s. oddly, i do this faster watching the screen vs watching my fingers.

Me too. My first go was about 5.7 seconds, but on the third or fourth try I was down to 4.65s by looking at the screen and pretending I was touch typing some gobbledygook word that just happened to be A-Z. With some practice I suppose I could get it down to under 4. It's still unnatural, but less so.

My Mom was trained as a secretary in her youth, and when I was 11 years old she taught me to touch type the way she learned: on a manual mechanical typewriter where I had to type "copy", to reproduce a typed sheet of text verbatim with no visible errors (no Wite-Out). In other words, I could get away with making a lowercase O or A into an E but if I ever typed "walkign" it was time to rip the page out and start the page all over again.

I had all day to do this (being at home alone in the summer), but I had to finish that page (a new one every day) by the time she got home from work.

With that kind of incentive I learned to touch type very accurately pretty quickly... And also to enter into a frame of mind where I just looked at the text and typed it without actually reading and processing the text as words.

Muscle memory and a large vocabulary being what it is, typing completely nonsense words is difficult, especially on a QWERTY keyboard where the layout of the letters A-Z is awkward by design.

[Elendil's Heir]

Eight to nine seconds no matter how I do it.