# What's your typing speed?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [January 26, 2013, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381 "2013-01-26T00:09:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2013, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381/1 "2013-01-26T00:09:12Z")
If you don’t know you can take the [test](http://www.typingtest.com/). Select 1 minute and your desired language, and then choose your topic.
Mine is 87 WPM by the way.
Poll coming soon…
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### Author:  [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2013, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381/2 "2013-01-26T00:18:12Z")
[DEL]Poll coming soon…[/DEL] Poll is now active.
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### Author:  [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2013, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381/3 "2013-01-26T00:21:53Z")
43 wpm with 100% accuracy.
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### Author:  [@R3d\_Anonymous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/R3d_Anonymous)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2013, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381/4 "2013-01-26T00:24:04Z")
[DEL]As a side note: don’t vote your adjusted speed. As long as you get 95% accuracy or more, post your original WPM.[/DEL]
Never mind. Post adjusted speed. Sorry, my adjusted speed was 84 WPM.
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### Author:  [@CanvasShoes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CanvasShoes)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381/5 "2013-01-26T00:39:43Z")
50s to 60s, last time I tested. I think it’s probably closer to 45 to 50 nowadays though.
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### Author:  [@Onomatopoeia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Onomatopoeia)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2013, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381/6 "2013-01-26T00:45:16Z")
According to the site, of three tries, this, my second try, was my best score:
Typing Speed 69 WPM
Errors 12
Adjusted speed 57 WPM
I really thought my typing speed was in the 80s, but I was typing as fast as I can and I couldn’t break 70 WPM. Surprising and disappointing.
My other 2 scores were:
Typing Speed 61 WPM
Errors 16
Adjusted speed 45 WPM
Typing Speed 64 WPM
Errors 10
Adjusted speed 54 WPM
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### Author:  [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2013, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381/7 "2013-01-26T00:55:13Z")
I don’t tend to type long stretches; I tend to think about what I’m writing, glance at research or support materials and stare at the ceiling in between bursts of typing at a speed proportional to the length of what I have to say in that pass. I have hit 90+ on tests but it’s not representative of my sustained speed… nor do I really have a sustained speed the way a copyist or secretary might.
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### Author:  [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2013, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381/8 "2013-01-26T00:58:48Z")
Didn’t take the test, but from memory of taking similar, I come out in the mid-90s.
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### Author:  [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2013, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381/9 "2013-01-26T01:12:47Z")
I came in at 96 this time, and that’s what I voted. I normally come in between 110 and 120, but even with the heat on it’s freaking cold in here and my fingers aren’t fully thawed. Still 100% accuracy, though. Best (and only real-world applicable) skill I ever got out of playing MMOs.
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### Author:  [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2013, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381/10 "2013-01-26T01:17:05Z")
61 wpm with 1 error.
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### Author:  [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2013, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381/11 "2013-01-26T01:25:14Z")
200 rly shrt wrds a mnt.
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### Author:  [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2013, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381/12 "2013-01-26T01:53:14Z")
Top of the chart.
I write 5000-6000 words per day these days. And I do it quickly and accurately.
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### Author:  [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2013, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381/13 "2013-01-26T02:53:21Z")
89 with 2 errors, but I know that’s on the high end. I usually average in the 60’s. Right in the meaty part of the curve it looks like. Not showing off, not falling behind
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### Author:  [@Hey\_Hey\_Paula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_Hey_Paula)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2013, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381/14 "2013-01-26T03:01:40Z")
You forgot an option: “I type fast enough and accurately enough to make good money as a transcriptionist/legal secretary, so testing is irrelevant.” 🆒
Last time I actually tested, a decade or so ago, I was at a temp agency doing their computerized tests. I mistook the actual typing test for a practice test and didn’t put in my best effort. When I explained to the staffer what had happened and offered to take the test again, she looked at my score and said “Don’t bother, this is good enough!” My score was in the mid-60’s. Of course it helped that my scores on Word, Excel, etc were very high as well.
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### Author:  [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2013, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381/15 "2013-01-26T03:56:23Z")
I got 69 wpm, zero errors, typed in the dark so I couldn’t have seen the keyboard if I’d wanted to (not that I wanted to).
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### Author:  [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2013, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381/16 "2013-01-26T04:02:47Z")
I came in at 65 wpm on this one. I’ve tested faster, and I really want to blame the somewhat compressed keyboard on my netbook, but that’s probably fairly close to a fair average.
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### Author:  [@robardin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robardin)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2013, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381/17 "2013-01-26T04:19:44Z")
I got a 92 WPM adjusted for errors typing about zebras. I’ve scored as high as 98-100 WPM on these types of tests before (possibly even this exact page or one just like it - it looks familiar), but I was dinged for errors because I kept typing a word or two ahead from reading ahead. To do these types of tests well I have to “zone out” and not think about what I’m reading, just typing the letters in an unbuffered stream (so to speak), but I wasn’t able to do that this time for whatever reason. I was reading and then typing what I just read, which made me error prone.
It didn’t help that I kept thinking the capitalization in their sample text was inconsistent. It made it hard for me to zone out.
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### Author:  [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2013, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381/18 "2013-01-26T04:25:16Z")
51 WPM. Rather quicker than I would have guessed, considering I never leaned to type…
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### Author:  [@Snerky\_Snerk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snerky_Snerk)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2013, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381/19 "2013-01-26T04:26:47Z")
I just tested myself. Typing on my tiny phone using just my thumb, I got 20 wpm with no errors.
So if I had a keyboard and used all 10 fingers, I guess that would be 200 wpm. :dubious:
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2013, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-typing-speed/648381/20 "2013-01-26T04:51:30Z")
66 wpm, adjusted (one error). Good enough – I’m usually writing, not transcribing, and I don’t feel like I can’t keep up with my thoughts.
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