# SDMB Typing Speed Contest. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 16, 2005, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980 "2005-12-16T21:40:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![VenusProbe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e495f1/32.png) [@VenusProbe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VenusProbe)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/21 "2005-12-17T01:49:07Z")
25wpm 4 errors. I’m a least twice as fast when I’m writing programs rather than transcribing. ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/22 "2005-12-17T01:57:36Z")
94wpm and 0 mistakes… like others, I would have been faster if I didn’t have an instinctive “go back and fix that NOW” pop up half a dozen times. I usually test around 110-115 when I’m not allowed to go back and fix things, so that’s probably about right, where it is. ---
**Author:** ![Rufus\_Xavier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@Rufus\_Xavier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rufus_Xavier)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/23 "2005-12-17T02:18:32Z")
MY speed was 1866 wpm with 81 mistakes. I clicked “Start,” highlighted the text, hit Ctrl-C, clicked in the text box, and hit Ctrl-V, then clicked the “stop” button. When I tested for Temp clerking jobs 10 years ago, I tested at 70 wpm with 98% accuracy. Nowadays, though, I doubt I could even acheive 40 wpm, and I’m too lazy to find out for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/24 "2005-12-17T02:44:14Z")
fRo soem r eason ikeep gettng a luosy scor… ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/25 "2005-12-17T03:10:00Z")
76 wpm…with 4 mistakes. ---
**Author:** ![soulmurk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@soulmurk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/soulmurk)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/26 "2005-12-17T03:23:00Z")
97 wpm with 1 mistake. I seem to be getting slower as I get older, but in my defense, I don’t type now anywhere near as often as I used to. ---
**Author:** ![scr4](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@scr4](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scr4)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/27 "2005-12-17T04:30:34Z")
76wpm, no mistakes. Not the easiest text I’ve typed though. Is this part even grammatically correct? > [@](#): > > … the story of their terrible privations has become quite as well known as far more horrible “Medusa” case. ---
**Author:** ![Martin\_Hyde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/47e85d/32.png) [@Martin\_Hyde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martin_Hyde)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/28 "2005-12-17T04:39:29Z")
108 wpm with zero mistakes. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/29 "2005-12-17T04:45:39Z")
Hah, hah! 3403 WPM, _and_ with no mistakes! (I copied and pasted into TextEdit (equivalent of Notepad), edited out all the extra commas, and then start-paste-stopped). ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/30 "2005-12-17T04:49:50Z")
I may n ot have the lowest wpm, at 69, but I have the highest number of errors at 11, it seems. And I even went back and corrected almost half of them. Good God, my fingers don’t do what they’re told. Then again, I really only use six fingers. The index, middle, and ring of my left, the index and middle of my right, and the thumb of my left. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/31 "2005-12-17T04:56:13Z")
75 wpm, but I went back and corrected a lot of mistakes. ---
**Author:** ![Tamryne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3e96dc/32.png) [@Tamryne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamryne)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/32 "2005-12-17T05:01:29Z")
First time: Kinda slow typing speed of 61 wpm, but no mistakes. Second time: Sightly faster at 70 wpm, again with no mistakes. Once you get the rythm of typing, you can usually type faster. I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/33 "2005-12-17T05:14:30Z")
I took a government-administered typing test for a job a few months ago and got 86wpm with 0 mistakes. No, I didn’t get the job. ---
**Author:** ![Dinaroozie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Dinaroozie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinaroozie)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/34 "2005-12-17T05:14:49Z")
I managed 94 words per minute, with four mistakes… but, the ‘s’ key on my keyboard is a little suss, which accounted for one of the mistakes. ~ Isaac ---
**Author:** ![Exploding\_Kitchen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Exploding\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exploding_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/35 "2005-12-17T05:18:03Z")
137 WPM, no mistakes. And I never learned to type properly. This is proof that I’ve ben using the internet (and more specifically, chatting in fast moving chat rooms) for too long. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingRamenMonster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@FlyingRamenMonster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingRamenMonster)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/36 "2005-12-17T08:33:03Z")
1. Not too bad. Would have been faster if I hadn’t lost my place halfway through the passage. ---
**Author:** ![TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tellmei_mnotcrazy/32/3419_2.png) [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/37 "2005-12-17T10:45:53Z")
73 WPM but, as many others, I couldn’t stop myself from backspacing to correct errors, which I’m sure slowed me down. The problem is, there’s some weird issue with my laptop where it will stop reading my keystrokes for a second or two, and I’ve typed four more words before I realize that the last half of a word is missing. And I definitely type faster when I’m typing from my brain, as opposed to copying something I see. ---
**Author:** ![Tevildo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Tevildo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tevildo)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/38 "2005-12-17T11:03:31Z")
76 WPM, no mistakes, some errors corrected during the course of the exercise. I feel that I’d have a better score if I’d been a little quicker changing from mouse to keyboard and back again at the start and end. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/39 "2005-12-17T14:30:03Z")
1800 wpm, 104 mistakes ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/40 "2005-12-17T16:19:36Z")
80 wpm, no mistakes. My first attempt was 79, 3 mistakes. I went back and corrected several mistakes; had I not, I would’ve had a faster rate. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980.md?page=3)