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Typing Speed

cherry su

cherry su

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Hello MR! What is your typing speed? I'm currently at ~85wpm on typeracer, but am looking to improve to approximately 100. I also noticed that I type much faster on the Apple chiclet keyboards than on my old ``multibody'' MacBook Pro or my desktop's split keyboard.
 
I can crank out about 60 wpm after error adjustments but take way that and I am just hammering away not really carrying to much about errors I can push it to 90WPM.

Now the real kicker is when someone starts looking at their random typing habits.
For example I only hit the space bar with my left thumb. I only use the left shift key, left control key and left alt key. All the dull sided special keys for me are only used by the left hand. I noticed that when I was looking at the space bar on my laptop and noticed that only the left 1/2 of it had any wear on it. Then I took noticed of my other odd habits and saw heavily favored the left part of the keyboard for the special keys.
 
Just took the test on Typeracer, I got 103wpm in a couple of races but on the 'official test' i got 93wpm. Cool site! Really quite fun.
 
dmr727 said:
I type at about 60 mpw. I've been working on this post since last night.
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You must be using my old cell phone, where you have to select A, B or C, hit enter, then go on to the next letter. LOL

tristangage said:
Just took the test on Typeracer, I got 103wpm in a couple of races but on the 'official test' i got 93wpm. Cool site! Really quite fun.
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Does it deduct 10 words for each typo?? ;)

I also can fly on my chicklet keyboard, and I've typed on everything, including a manual typewriter. :eek:
 
I get around 62wpm in daily typing with no regard for errors and backspacing (which happens frequently) on the chicklet keys which I'm slow on (the old style was way better IMO). If I can't sustain it it's a useless measurement.
 
I can get about 85, 80 with error adjustment.
The test that you linked to said that I got about 65 with errors, but I didn't really like the way they tested you. I couldn't really see the text that I was supped to type and the text that I was typing at the same time. I need to be reading the text that I am typing as I go along or else I will make more errors than I should.
 
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Did it once, made an error... results follow:
 

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That typeracer website is pretty cool. I ended up doing 12 races and my average seemed to be around 70 wpm.
 
Mine is around 100 wpm. Depends on how much punctuation, and how many words I actually know how to spell on there. (It's easier when I know how to spell it, because it's natural for my hands to move to there?)
 
Did it a few times and it varies depending on the complexity of the sentences and words. It varied between 74 and 89.

I am probably writing this faster than what I got on the test because this sentence is coming out naturally. My mind gets confused when I copy something because my hands move faster than I read, so it starts skipping around sometimes.
 
callmemike20 said:
Did it a few times and it varies depending on the complexity of the sentences and words. It varied between 74 and 89.

I am probably writing this faster than what I got on the test because this sentence is coming out naturally. My mind gets confused when I copy something because my hands move faster than I read, so it starts skipping around sometimes.
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The same thing happens to me. I need to know what I am typing, not just read and copy it.
It's the same thing as reading words out loud versus normal conversation.
 
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