How fast can you type ?

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119/115.

But I’ve customized my word processor so much that I can easily keep up with people speaking at 150-160 wpm speeds by using a zillion shortcuts, so I tend to discount typing tests. It’s good to know I’m still fairly accurate, however; I used to far, far more accurate, but computers have made it far too easy to be sloppy.

62

Ah, you beat me. :frowning:

Gross Words Per Minute (GWPM): 61
Net Words Per Minute (NWPM): 59

63

First attempt: 136/134. I was surprised. Second try, 64/64. Makes me think the first time I did something wrong.

Heck, I’m happy with 64.

64

101 GWPM, 99 NWPM, first try. I’ve been a fast typist since I took a typing class in high school over 20 years ago.

65

Gross Words Per Minute (GWPN): 90
Net Words Per Minute (NWPN): 89

66

103/102

67

Gross Words Per Minute (GWPM): 68
Net Words Per Minute (NWPM): 66

Which is interesting since I just took one of the longer 3 minute tests last week and was only at 37 WPM.

68

Gross: 72
Net: 68

69

110/109 on the first try. I’ll take it again, but I don’t anticipate a ton of improvement over that.

I attribute it to the brief period of my teenage years when I had no job and nothing to do and spent about 10-12 hours a day on my local BBS chatting and competing in Farwest Trivia. :slight_smile:

70

My high school typing teacher would be so proud:

Gross Words Per Minute (GWPM): 92
Net Words Per Minute (NWPM): 90
I’d like to thank instant messenger, online gaming and MUDs.

71

123; 118.

If I can get through something like this with no mistakes my speed is much higher. This time I flustered myself by mistyping something about halfway through. My mistake: reading the copy.

72

I just tried it, and got a 105/103. Which is about the same as when I last took an online typing speed test, which I recall as getting a 99 NWPM on.

It helps to briefly read the text over first. Typing is not taking dictation.

I remember taking some kind of typing test on an actual typewriter back in 1988 when I joined a temp agency for office clerical work as a summer job. I think I got something in the low 80s on that one. I don’t think I type any faster now, rather I think that test penalized more for errors (since you couldn’t backspace and fix them), so you had to type slower to avoid them.

73

95/95

I had the same issue!