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Title: Your typing speed..?
Post by: Dragooon on November 2nd, 2012, 03:51 PM
Found a pretty nice typing test and thought what the fellow member's typing speeds are:

http://10fastfingers.com/typing-test/english
Title: Re: Your typing speed..?
Post by: Farjo on November 2nd, 2012, 06:32 PM
29 words per minute. Interestingly 27 correct but none wrong. "You are better than 37.47% of all users (position 52657 of 84212 - last 24 hours)" - so I can say I'm in the middle third ;)

What was yours?
Title: Re: Your typing speed..?
Post by: tfs on November 2nd, 2012, 06:39 PM
Words per minute (WPM)   59
Keystrokes   301
(293 | 8)
Correct words   57
Wrong words   2
You are better than 77.88% of all users (position 18604 of 84092 - last 24 hours)

The words seemed awfully short and simple.  I took a typing class in high school (9th grade) back around 1974 and at that time was at 28 WPM on those old manual typewriters, but I'm sure the vocabulary had more depth and breadth back then.
Title: Re: Your typing speed..?
Post by: Dragooon on November 2nd, 2012, 07:41 PM
I managed to score 98 in the morning but didn't save it, I'm averaging at 94-97 WPM.
Quote from Farjo on November 2nd, 2012, 06:32 PM
29 words per minute. Interestingly 27 correct but none wrong. "You are better than 37.47% of all users (position 52657 of 84212 - last 24 hours)" - so I can say I'm in the middle third ;)

What was yours?
A word is taken as 5 characters for WPM, so that explains the 27 correct and 29 WPM.
Title: Re: Your typing speed..?
Post by: Arantor on November 2nd, 2012, 07:47 PM
I stopped caring about WPM when I spent more time writing code than anything else, because I've long since learned to concentrate on typing the constructs of programming languages, which is a fair bit different to writing normal words.
Title: Re: Your typing speed..?
Post by: Dragooon on November 2nd, 2012, 08:32 PM
Quote from Arantor on November 2nd, 2012, 07:47 PM
I stopped caring about WPM when I spent more time writing code than anything else, because I've long since learned to concentrate on typing the constructs of programming languages, which is a fair bit different to writing normal words.
Yeah I know, but it's still a fun attribute.
Title: Re: Your typing speed..?
Post by: Nao on November 2nd, 2012, 09:57 PM
Only did one try... Got 86 words done, 5 wrong thanks to Milady yelling at me how "that's a stupid thing to test" and me having to reply. I guess I have similar skills to Dragooon, which is not too shabby considering I'm an old fart and he was born with a keyboard in his hands :P

Yes it's a stupid thing to test, but it's still funny just to know things like why Pete is able to post 60 messages per minute at sm.org...[1]
Posted: November 2nd, 2012, 09:53 PM

My bad. Redid the test without pressure and got 89 words done with 4 wrong. And I just realized I could have pressed Backspace to fix them... (Probably at the cost of total WPM, ah ah. But well.)

Oh my, I'll just close this tab and forget about it...
 1. "His WPM... It's over 9 thousand!"
Title: Re: Your typing speed..?
Post by: Arantor on November 2nd, 2012, 09:59 PM
83 words done, making about 5 typos - but I corrected them before I moved on, making a total of 429 keystokes. (It reckons 86 WPM)

Also, out of interest, the last time I went to a job centre, I got asked to do a test on data entry, and apparently my rate of entering names, addresses (even allowing for my own typos - and my own correcting them before going on to the next record), was the highest they'd ever seen.

/meis a MACHINE.
Title: Re: Your typing speed..?
Post by: Nao on November 2nd, 2012, 10:20 PM
Wedgeward. Two machines: twice the bugs. :cool:
Title: Re: Your typing speed..?
Post by: Arantor on November 2nd, 2012, 10:26 PM
But twice squared the awesome factor :D
Title: Re: Your typing speed..?
Post by: sokha on November 3rd, 2012, 05:54 AM
My first try:

Words per minute: 69
Keystrokes: 359
Correct words: 66
Wrong words: 3
You are better than 85.28% of all users (position 11695 of 79453)
Title: Re: Your typing speed..?
Post by: nend on November 3rd, 2012, 06:48 AM
Words per minute (WPM)   64
Keystrokes   319
(319 | 0)
Correct words   64
Wrong words   0
You are better than 81.7% of all users (position 14468 of 79064 - last 24 hours)

Haven't took one of these in a long time.

If you scroll down the page there is some people with over 100 WPM.
Title: Re: Your typing speed..?
Post by: live627 on November 3rd, 2012, 07:28 AM
Quote from nend on November 3rd, 2012, 06:48 AM
If you scroll down the page there is some people with over 100 WPM.
My mom  could hit 120 years ago when she had a data-entry job.
Title: Re: Your typing speed..?
Post by: agent47 on November 3rd, 2012, 10:29 AM
(http://10fastfingers.com/speedtests/generate_screenshot_result/54_273_0_0_51_1_73.46_20415_76929)
Title: Re: Your typing speed..?
Post by: Auk on November 6th, 2012, 09:48 AM
Words per minute (WPM)   43
Keystrokes   215
(215 | 0)
Correct words   42
Wrong words   0

Is my score. I never really learned to type properly. Funny I know where all the keys are at on my keyboard and can type with my eyes closed. -.-