# 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:** 5\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![stretch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@stretch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stretch)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2005, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/41 "2005-12-17T16:43:34Z")
74 wpm; 7 mistakes–2 times! Damn it, my error rate is going up; I blame autocorrect and spell-check, not my shitty finger coordination. Also, I always want to edit text as I’m typing and both of my samples made my inner editor scream. A couple of my errors were for things I “corrected”. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/42 "2005-12-18T07:30:21Z")
48 wpm, 4 mistakes. The mistakes were all due to the sticky space bar on my laptop keyboard. I’d be curious to try it on a standard keyboard, I’ve always had a bit of a hard time with the tiny size of the lappy. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/43 "2005-12-18T10:11:32Z")
Huh. Something must be wrong. It said 83wpm, **97** mistakes. Rereading what I typed: > [@](#): > > Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress. Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the Blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters; and her profile as well as her stature and bearing seemed to gain the more dignity from her plain garments, which by the side of provincial fashion gave her the imressivenes of a fine quotation from the Bible, or from one of our elder poets, in a paragraph of to-day’s newspaper. I see only one or two errors, depending on how you count it. (Two errors in one word.) WTF? ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 10:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/44 "2005-12-18T10:48:53Z")
42 wpm, 7 mistakes. Most mistakes were from not capitalising and I got one mistake because I put a full stop (period for you lot) at the end of the paragraph. ---
**Author:** ![dbuzman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@dbuzman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbuzman)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2005, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980/45 "2005-12-18T11:30:50Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > 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). Hah! I beat you! 🙂 Your speed was: 9339wpm. Congratulations! You made no mistakes, practice does make perfect. After editing the test in notepad then copying it, I clicked start then ctrl-v then stop so was able to stop the test faster. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-typing-speed-contest/335980.md?page=2)