88 on this test, on a laptop keyboard. I’ve tested at 100 on a full size keyboard.
When I was in my final year of high school, my main focus of study was maths to prepare for going to University. But they made you fill up your timetable with other stuff. I did secretarial studies for fun. Turned out to be the single most useful thing I ever did.
Aww, I really wanted this to work on my iPhone. Just to see.
I’m going to guess 60-65 wpm.
40 rods to the hogshead.
30 with 0 errors.
Wow! I did 29 wpm! That is an improvement of 6 wpm since 8th grade typing class (The last time I was timed.) I am always amazed and impressed by people who can type without looking down at the key board.
I assume our poll result is the adjusted speed with errors? I got 136 raw, 134 adjusted, so I put myself in the 131-135 box.
I did do a couple of practice runs to memorize the text, but I took a good result. If I practiced it a few more times I could get above 140.
I used the typing instructions one since it was simple and easy to memorize, although I almost ran out of words at the end.
People often think I’m lying about typing speed even though I don’t find it particularly hard to believe, but I recorded it anyway.
Start a line if you want to have my baby, by the way. I know typing speed is the sexiest of skills. I get the choice of telling people on the internet they are wrong either twice as much, or in half the time. Super power.
58 wpm with 95% accuracy. I didn’t like the fact that the next word to be typed was highlighted though. It threw me off.
I just cut and paste a lot.
80 wpm for normal text and about 6000 kph (keystrokes per hour) on ten-key, with 100% accuracy. It was a bit disappointing–I used to be much, much faster than that on ten-key. Still, it’s faster than it would be for me to enter the numbers and operators from the row. I tested on my laptop keyboard, which is pretty small for my hands. I’d probably do a little better on my full size keyboard at the office, but not enough to change my poll answer.
I took the test twice; first in English (104 wpm) and then in my native language, Spanish (110 wpm). Interestingly enough, I typed in Spanish using a non-Spanish Mac keyboard, which requires fiddling with alt-key combinations to input accents and tildes.
I had 1 mistake in English, 0 mistakes in Spanish.
102, adjusted for my 3 errors.
I bet that would go down considerably if I took the test for much longer than the minute.
I type in Dvorak keyset for what it’s worth.
First try was 97 with one error. Tried a couple of more times and got to 94 with no errors. That minute seemed to take forever. In high school long ago I did 123 with 1 error, 110 with no errors.
109 wpm, adjusted for 4 errors.
Mom told me I’d never learn how to type quickly and correctly without looking if I didn’t do it the “right” way and learn correct finger positioning, etc. Haha, Mom.
I messed up on my first attempt by not following the instructions. 0 wpm…
second time I managed 21 wpm.
I’ve got big hands and a dodgy keyboard.
And the cat was staring at me.
Of course, that is copying, not typing. I can type from my head more quickly.
45 wpm on “Space Cowboys”, there were a lot of dashes, quotes, and other characters. These definitely slow me down.
62 wpm on “The Wizard of Oz”, which was more normal. I am not sure why they consider these two text to be equivalent.
77 wpm on test instructions text. I thought I was about 60 wpm. I wasn’t pushing myself super hard, but the words going grey as I typed was distracting.
130 raw, 129 adjusted.
Edit: I used to always score in the 100-110 range on these things, but the last few I’ve taken (over the past year or so) have been higher, in the 125-135 area. I guess this means I’ve become faster. Possibly due to having a smaller, lighter keyboard. I don’t know. I’m definitely much slower on those big honking ergonomic keyboards. (Screw RSI protection; I need speed.)
A few years ago, the company rolled out some software for our computers that would combat RSI problems by monitoring the mouse and keyboard usage. During the configuration on my machine, I was asked how many words per minute I typed. I replied truthfully - ~20 WPM when I am really zooming along - and a red box appear telling me that the minimum accepted value was 50 WPM. The program shut down and I was advised by the support staff to wait until a new version that would accommodate slugs like me. :smack:
Took the baseball test, got caught off-guard, and had fumble fingers. Typed 108wpm with 14 errors, adjusted to 94 wpm. Then immediately took the tiger test and finished at 104 wpm with 0 errors.