What is your top typing speed?

[Danoz]

http://www.typingtest.com/

What is your top typing speed? I tend to "chill" around 80 words a minute when I am casually working or typing an email-- but for testing and transcribing (and the test above) I clocked in at 105 WPM (after warming up considerably).

 

[cultcross]

62 with 100% accuracy. Probably slightly faster if I'm happy to trust Word's autocorrect

 

[Roger Wilco]

In my first try I had 58 words per minute in the astronaut test. I thought that was pretty fast, how the hell can you get to 105?

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Copying words that are on the screen, I can hit 100 wpm without breaking a sweat. I type considerably faster when it's off-the-cuff, though, since I only have to pull it out of my brain rather than read it on a screen and duplicate it.

100% accuracy!

 

[Deckerd]

Pah. Touch typing is for girls.

 

[Danoz]

In my first try I had 58 words per minute in the astronaut test. I thought that was pretty fast, how the hell can you get to 105?

I've been typing since I was a little kid... my mother insisted I learn to touch-type early and put a cardboard box over the keyboard with a cutout for my hands until I could type 35 words a minute without mistakes. Over the years I got faster. In fact, I'll often catch myself "typing" a word in the air when I forget how to spell it, lol.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

In my first try I had 58 words per minute in the astronaut test. I thought that was pretty fast, how the hell can you get to 105?

I've been typing since I was a little kid... my mother insisted I learn to touch-type early and put a cardboard box over the keyboard with a cutout for my hands until I could type 35 words a minute without mistakes. Over the years I got faster. In fact, I'll often catch myself "typing" a word in the air when I forget how to spell it, lol.

I've been typing since I was a little kid, too, but I can't say I've ever "typed in the air."

 

[Danoz]

In my first try I had 58 words per minute in the astronaut test. I thought that was pretty fast, how the hell can you get to 105?

I've been typing since I was a little kid... my mother insisted I learn to touch-type early and put a cardboard box over the keyboard with a cutout for my hands until I could type 35 words a minute without mistakes. Over the years I got faster. In fact, I'll often catch myself "typing" a word in the air when I forget how to spell it, lol.

I've been typing since I was a little kid, too, but I can't say I've ever "typed in the air."

That's because you're not a baller like me!

 

[StolenThunder]

83wpm (84 including an error).

I am lucky enough to have a job where copying isn't particularly required. Things are either done by hand, or limited by the speed of my thinking.

 

[RoJoHen]

I never learned how to type properly, but I manage well enough. For instance, I never use my ring fingers. Not sure why. I use every other finger, but not my ring finger on either hand.

I'm around 65 wpm.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I've been typing since I was a little kid... my mother insisted I learn to touch-type early and put a cardboard box over the keyboard with a cutout for my hands until I could type 35 words a minute without mistakes. Over the years I got faster. In fact, I'll often catch myself "typing" a word in the air when I forget how to spell it, lol.

I've been typing since I was a little kid, too, but I can't say I've ever "typed in the air."

That's because you're not a baller like me!

I looked up the various definitions of "baller" and I still don't know what you mean.

 

[Spot's Meow]

I did much differently on each of the different tests. There are certain letters and words that I have trouble with, such as mixing up L and K, Qs, and anything that involves numbers, never learned to type those properly.

But my average is about 80 WPM. Though on "Test Instructions" I get around 95 WPM. One of my jobs requires some data input so this is very helpful. It may not seem like much to you guys but in my office most of the people aren't that great with computers and type very slowly.

 

[Iasius]

I've averaged around 65 WPM with 95%+ accuracy or so on three different texts and I suppose that won't get any faster until I actually learn to type with ten fingers. That said, "writing" math in LaTeX or programming usually doesn't require typing speed as much as knowing how you have to "spell" things and that's much more important to what I usually do.

 

[Geckothan]

I got 107 wpm on the Astronaut test without being warmed up, and I usually get 120-130 wpm on easier tests (got 143 one time on one of those easy "type random words for 1 minute with no punctuation" ones). I reckon I could add a few wpm to that if I was on a mechanical board instead of this G15 with squishy membrane switches.

I forced myself to learn how to touch type when I had an old desk with a broken keyboard tray that wouldn't pull out. Instead of just putting the keyboard on top of the desk or fixing it, I decided to leave it under there and type with the keyboard completely invisible, and since then it's just been natural to me.

 

[backstept]

mid fifties for me . . . but I don't really care to be any faster since it would mean increased inaccuracy

 

[Jeri]

I forget now exactly what it was, but regularly in the mid-100's. I think I did one test at 178 wpm. I was a twenty bopper and in my prime.

 

[kes7]

I was tested at my last job. 95 wpm with 100% accuracy. I don't know if I'm faster, or slower now, and I don't feel like taking the test. But I do know I don't type "correctly." I don't have to look at the keys, but I usually do anyway, and I don't hit the keys with the "right" fingers.

 

[Jadzia]

I don't like typing quickly. Trying to get it over with as quickly as possible can make it feel like a chore, and I don't like it to be a chore. I like to think about what I'm writing, and proceed at a leisurely pace. So when I'm typing a block of text I'll probably operate at around 40-50wpm, but that's not taking into account all the little pauses I make to think about what I'm writing I can type faster than that, but I rarely do. This post has taken me about 3 minutes.

 

[Amaris]

According to the last job test score I took for office positions, I can type 93 wpm with zero errors.

Even though I consider that a pretty decent speed, I hate it when the words are flowing from my brain so quickly that even that speed isn't enough to get it all down. This always happens when I'm inspired to write a good story.

J.

 

[Deimos Anomaly]

I scored 62 wpm net, 68 gross on the Wizard of Oz. This was typing in a straight-up focused stance for maximum speed.

Typing in a relaxed stance sitting back I hit 56 WPM net and 60 gross.

Accuracy was 93% or thereabouts.