How Fast Do People Type?
Less than half the population of the world has the manual dexterity to wiggle their fingers at the speed of 50 words per minute or better.
–Dr. Alan Lloyd, seminal typing instructor.
Computer professionals often seem to have unrealistically high expectations of what the “average” typist can do. For example, according to this Wikipedia article (as of 2007-12-04)
An average typist reaches 50 to 70 wpm, while some positions can require 80 to 95 (usually the minimum required for dispatch positions and other typing jobs), and some advanced typists work at speeds above 120.
But as we shall see 70 WPM is an absurdly high “average”. 120 WPM means 12 strokes a second, or a split-time of 83mesc between keypresses. That borders on the physically impossible.
As Teresia R. Ostrach, President of Five Star Staffing, Inc. says,
After 27 years in the Staffing Industry, I’ve encountered just about every misconception regarding the performance of office workers. The most frustrating of these is the belief in what constitutes “average” typing scores.
…
“For years I tried to explain that 65 WPM is a lot faster than average, but I had no proof. After all, everybody knows what an average typist is, right? Somebody who types between 50 and 60 WPM? Well, isn’t it? Well, NO, it’s not!
Here are her findings:

Mean = 40 WPM = 240 characters/minute
Median = 38 WPM = 228 characters/minute
Standard Deviation = 16.7-WPM = 100 characters/minute
Notice that that out of the three thousand four hundred and seventy five applicants, not a single one could manage 120 WPM. And only the top 5% of applicants could manage 70 WPM or higher.
Source:
Typing Speed: How Fast is Average
4,000 typing scores statistically analyzed and interpreted
It’s an excellent paper. Short and accessible, yet relevant, authoritative, and eye-opening. Well worth the read. (Unfortunately it’s laid out poorly in the liked PDF. If someone has a more readable source I’d love to link to it).
But what’s more interesting to me is this chart:

Which shows an average error-rate of about 6% per word. Put another way, more then 1 out of every 17 words has a typo in it, which is kind of a big deal.
The error-rate is probably artificially high, because subjects were taking the test under a lot of pressure — it determined if they got a job or not! But even the best group of over-qualfied typists still had a 4% error rate; or a fumble on 1 out of every 25 words. And that’s significant.
The implications of a 4%-6% error-rate are enormous. If people are making that many errors, then good spellcheckers, and auto correctors are essential. If one out of every 17-25 words is mistyped, then long command-lines seem like a very bad idea, because something like one out of every 20 commands would be in-error. Systems should be able to gracefully recover from bad input; because they will be inundated with it.
It looks like the average typist is much slower, and makes more mistakes, then “folk-wisdom” leads us to believe.
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December 5, 2007 at 9:47 am
It’s an interesting thing to see graphed out, I know from a programmers perspective I can hammer out lines of code in no time at all, or similarly when writing this comment. But if I was dictating for say, a lawyer, typing words I wouldn’t normally type (especially under pressure) even though I may know full well how to spell each word, I’ll make typing mistakes all over the place.
I’m pretty sure in my heyday, when I was concentrating I could hit the 90WPM for extended periods of time, but I think I’d be hard pressed to do 70 or 75 now. In that sense, I’ve definitely become lazier.
May 21, 2016 at 10:17 pm
You are absolutely right, I type 160 WPM so the temp agency called me offering me a job to do legal dictation for a workers compensation attorney. What did I find immediately in the door? That my 160 was really about 106-110 until I had typed those big long legal words a bunch of times and had them engrained in my brain.
August 8, 2019 at 7:39 am
I highly doubt you are pulling of 160 WPM buddy.
August 22, 2020 at 7:53 pm
Sounds like a load of bull. If you were getting 160 wpm you’d be working for the FBI or something bud…
December 5, 2007 at 4:01 pm
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May 19, 2009 at 2:20 am
I make many errors which I immediately correct, often without having to look at the screen. Do the error rates here count errors that are later corrected? If so, the implications are exaggerated.
June 29, 2009 at 2:46 am
I have personally hit 150 wpm for periods of 3-5 minutes (this was actually timed). The problem is that I run out of words to type. My typing speed varies based on what I’m doing: copying, listening, writing, coding, etc. I normally type ~50 wpm, but I only using 3 fingers and a thumb.
Most of my mistakes are corrected by feel: I feel that I hit the wrong key three strokes back and correct it quickly enough that it doesn’t effect speed.
I find it hard to believe that I’m 6.6 standard deviations out.
First, this study should be done under normal typing conditions.
Second, it should only test people who have been trained to type and do so frequently. Everyone begins as a poor typist.
April 25, 2019 at 6:17 pm
I have that too?
July 29, 2019 at 5:33 pm
Yup, lets just reply 10 years later!
December 3, 2019 at 11:55 am
Yes, let’s!
June 29, 2009 at 5:07 am
@James Cook,
My understanding from reading the paper was that the error rate included typos that were instinctively corrected. So the 4-6% error rate was of key presses, not final words.
Unfortunately, I don’t know any data on how many words are mistyped. As you point out, it could be a lot lower.
Does the 4-6% key-press error rate hold for keyboard shortcuts? Anecdotally I don’t think it does. But I don’t have anything other than “it feels like I hit the wrong key a lot less than that” to base that on.
@Q
6.6 ∑ does seem pretty unbelievable! I agree that the study should be done under normal typing conditions. I also think if it were repeated today, the average would be higher, because computers are increasingly ubiquitous, and more children grow up using them.
But I strongly disagree that these kinds of tests should only be done on people who have been trained to type, and practice typing. I think the question of how fast to most computer users type is more interesting and valuable.
December 1, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Hello;
Thanks for the interesting article. The requirements of some agencies seem quite silly to me. My girl friend, who is a nursing assistant was looking at some medical office positions, that also required some data entry. They required 60+ WPM, I thought to myself, that really sounds quite high. So I looked it up and found your page. I can type up in the 70+ WPM range with errors, or error free (correcting my errors as I go) at 50+ WPM. I can see now from your charts that there are very few people (5% or less) that can achieve typing rates as fast as what I can do. Based on your charts, I doubt more than 10% can type at over 60 WPM.
Thanks
Jamie Dolan
Neenah, WI
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March 4, 2010 at 10:50 pm
I spend a lot of time practicing typing on programs like MicroType and various typing test websites such as Typingtest.com and can do 120 wpm no problem with 99-100% accuracy.
Speed really depends on the text difficulty. Copying stuff out of a chemistry book for example is a lot harder because of all the jargon and big words with fingering patterns that haven’t been locked into your muscle memory yet. If something has a lot uncommon words, and a shitload of weird punctuation and symbols it can slow my typing speed dramatically down to 90-100 wpm. On the other side of things, I have reached a personal record of 168 wpm typing a short 3-4 sentence paragraph on Microtype that contains common everyday words with no punctuation other than periods and commas (albeit with a couple errors). Also on microtype I sometimes on a good day reach 1 sentence speed bursts of up to 176 wpm. on TypingTest.com the text is a bit harder and a lot longer so my personal best there is only 142 wpm (96% accuracy) on “the enchanted typewriter” for 60 seconds.
I’ve never had my wpm taken for more than a 60 second period so I can’t say for sure if 5 minutes 120 wpm is “physically impossible” or not.
Keep in mind I have been playing the piano for 12 years. so its safe to say that extra finger dexterity has built up overtime. If you look at some of the ridiculously fast passages concert pianists need to execute over a span of 88 keys (listen to Chopin’s “winter wind” etude on youtube for example), 120+ wpm on a mere computer keyboard is not unrealistic at all. People who pick up the piano for the first time will fumble all over the keys trying to play a simple scale, in very much the same way a person just learning to type does on a keyboard.
September 3, 2010 at 12:30 pm
I must confess I was quite flattered to find that an article I wrote several years ago for a staffing industry magazine has gained such exposure on the internet. I’ve found abundant quotes from it on many sites, and not a single one sought me out to ask for clarification before commenting. Yet a 10 second search on Google could find me. Anyway, some interesting suggestions were brought up.
First, thank all of you for your comments. I’m not likely to be in a position to repeat this analysis in my lifetime or to test out the other theories presented here, but here are a few clarifications.
It’s not surprising that there are unanswered questions which I will try to address but I’m sure I’ll miss many. In any case, anyone wishing to reach me may send a note to terryostrach@cfl.rr.com. Here are my comments:
1) Several people commented on how the “study” should have been done. This was NOT a “study.” It was a de facto analysis of EVERY score from EVERY individual taking a standardized typing test in my own business over a period of several years. Nobody “set out” to do a study. I simply collected the information we already had on computer and analyzed it.
2) Regarding how typing speeds are probably higher now based upon the fact that so many of us use computers, I don’t know of anyone who has researched this, but surely there must be someone out there who has. The jury is still out on that.
3) Several people commented on their own experience either with correcting errors or how they instinctively “feel” if they’ve made a mistake. No doubt this may be true, but I know of no study or analysis that has tested that out. This was not “designed” to be a definitive “study.” It’s merely an analysis of the years of data we had on hand.
4) As I clearly stated in my article, the ability to back up to correct errors was disabled in our computerized test. The results are as they stand. Since NO ONE could correct errors, the conditions were the same for everyone. Whether allowing people to self-correct would make a difference in the scores, I cannot know since I can’t go back and re-test those 4,000 people under different conditions. I can tell you, from personal experience of 30 years in an industry that people who were allowed to correct their errors as they typed usually missed a few and, I suspect, their speed scores were lower, ultimately resulting in the same approximate score.
5) As I mentioned in my article, Dr. Alan Lloyd stated, from his studies, that the “average” person has difficulty WIGGLING his/her fingers at 50 wpm. Since he was a major authority on typing in his day, I tend to trust him.
6) In my personal experience over 30 years of screening applicants for clerical jobs, scores for a 5-minute test are always lower than scores for a 1- or 2-minute test. Many people can have their fingers fly for a short period of time but cannot maintain that speed for 5 minutes. Usually if they do, their error rate increases dramatically.
7) As another general rule, the very fastest typists also had the fewest errors. It was unusual for a 100+-wpm typist to have more than an occasional error. On the other hand, there were many people who could type at the SPEED of 40 wpm while making 40 errors!
8) There was a suggestion that tests should be done in a more “normal” environment. As soon as you start a test, though, it’s not a normal environment anymore. We always assumed that in a normal work environment people type faster than they do on a test. As a matter of fact, we counted on it. We encouraged companies NOT to rely on typing speed alone–that when people settle into a job, their anxiety is reduced and their performance increases.
9) Yes, it is true that speed depends upon the difficulty of the text being typed. It is also true that EVERYONE who took these tests took the same test in the same room on the same computer and additionally,
10) The test was set up to repeat the content automatically if a person reached the end. It recycled so that no one would ever be in the position of running out of text as one person said.
As I said, you may contact me personally: terryostrach@cfl.rr.com.
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August 11, 2011 at 4:40 am
i can type fast
February 22, 2019 at 6:07 pm
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November 12, 2019 at 12:39 pm
I have seen that if I place four fingers of each hand on the individual keys “asdf” for left hand and “;lkj” for the right hand, and use the thumbs for space bar alternatively, I can just go about more than 200 wpm, that is no matter what we have to consider asdf and ;lkj as two separate words.
And yeah, I have about 2.5% error rate.
August 11, 2011 at 9:00 am
But can you use capital letters? Seriously, it doesn’t do any good to be able to type fast if your accuracy rate is low.
October 18, 2011 at 10:07 pm
hmm my average typing speed is about 120wpm, while my personal max is 160
most of it is from typingtest.com and online games like typeracer.com
April 27, 2020 at 11:29 pm
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April 27, 2020 at 11:29 pm
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April 27, 2020 at 11:31 pm
I’m a beginner who only types at 5 CPM! Can you help me improve?
April 27, 2020 at 11:31 pm
I’m a beginner who only types at 5 CPM! Can you help me improve??
September 12, 2012 at 6:54 am
Hi everyone…
To my knowledge there has been no officially accepted test like this for QWERTY/Dvorak typing speed and accuracy. Perhaps Teresia R. Ostrach would consider some investigation into this.
As a Dvorak typist, I’d be very interested in the results!
Rob
November 15, 2012 at 4:55 pm
STAR WARS RULES.
November 17, 2012 at 8:28 pm
man after reading the error rate the fact that my keyboard teacher only allows five errors for 3 paragraghs or its an f seems quite ridiculous
November 28, 2012 at 9:41 am
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January 21, 2013 at 1:58 pm
Nonsense. The average WPM for 11 year olds would be around 87
January 6, 2015 at 10:12 pm
You might have gotten a… slight calculation error there. I am one of the top three fastest typers in my school’s 6th grade and my WPM is 58.
July 6, 2015 at 12:27 am
I type at 86 words per minute, however I am indeed the fastest in my seventh grade class. I don’t really find this impressive as I am a pc gamer.
August 30, 2019 at 6:01 am
Umm, dunno bout you but im 8th grade and I hit 110 alot..
Some background: 8th grade, I play saxophone, top band 2nd chair all year bc 1st is pretty overpowering, I never practice but I’m good at fast passages, and I also play piano like a noob. I’ve been on a PC since I was 2, and actively typing. At school I’d mess around on typing tests and found everyone else was slower.
well whatever
Anyways, age doesn’t really have anything to do with typing speed. Just experience in typing, ability to spell words correctly, and sometimes a decent reaction time for when you blunder can help increase that speed to that of a jet
October 13, 2016 at 4:13 pm
What I am 13 and my wpm is only 31
April 22, 2013 at 11:12 am
You use “then” where you mean “than” twice! And you made an error in “liked” rather than “linked”. Were you rushing to type this?
September 3, 2013 at 6:09 am
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September 11, 2013 at 8:57 am
I usually monitor http://www.ratatype.com/high-scores/all-time/ and 158 WPM is the highest result.
November 1, 2013 at 3:59 pm
“120 WPM means 12 strokes a second, or a split-time of 83mesc between keypresses. That borders on the physically impossible.”
bahahaha I can’t believe someone actually thinks/wrote this.
October 24, 2015 at 8:14 pm
its 120 WORDS, I guess the average word has 4-5 letters plus the space key. That’s 2 WORDS per second and 6 strokes per word. The math is correct
October 9, 2016 at 12:28 am
In typing, five letters or spaces equals one word.
December 1, 2013 at 12:25 pm
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February 18, 2014 at 12:12 am
As someone who routinely averages 130-140WPM and can burst to 200+ with 99% accuracy, I can tell you that fast typing is not just about being able to think and move your fingers quickly – the keyboard is a HUGE factor. I can only type this fast on the keyboard I’m using, which is one with an extremely light actuation pressure (~30g), short actuation distance, and smaller gaps between the keys (so I don’t have to hit all the keys in their center — getting a corner suffices). I also have a laptop whose keyboard requires much more force, in the 60-70g range, and I can barely get to 120WPM with that; same with the more conventional full-sized keyboards with very deep key travel and wide gaps between keys, where even sustaining 100WPM quickly gets tiring.
March 27, 2014 at 7:56 am
[…] The average person types around 40 words per minute (WPM). I type about 130-140 WPM (proof). Sometimes, and this might sound weird, I feel in the zone and can type significantly faster – closer to 160 WPM. I attribute this to my piano background and a childhood playing video games. Sometimes I’ll sit at the piano, and things just feel right, whereas other times my fingers just get stuck on each other. […]
June 10, 2014 at 9:39 pm
I do type 50 WPH, but It depends on what I am doing. I do type faster when I am listening and make less error.
April 27, 2020 at 11:37 pm
Ouch! That means it took you precisely 26 minutes, 9 seconds, and 6000 milliseconds to complete what you just typed. How much have stuff could you do in that much time?
April 28, 2020 at 2:27 am
What are you doing with your life here?
July 9, 2014 at 4:18 pm
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August 1, 2014 at 4:40 am
The last three typing tests I’ve taken were respectively 129wpm, 127wpm and 128wpm. I don’t have to look at my keyboard or think about where to hit my keys but I have to have total concentration and I have to read one to two words infront of the word I’m typing at the same time. If my thinking gets bothered by anything, I immediatly start failing and I have to restart all over.
It’s kind of weird to me that the average typing speed is so low, typing over 110wpm to me is extremely natural but I guess that’s the result of being on the computer all the time. Currently, I’m trying to put those skills up to use by learning piano by myself. I can play extremely fast if I have to play on the same octave but I still have to work on moving my hand precisely from one place to another on the piano.
August 12, 2014 at 4:06 pm
This blog was… how do you say it? Relevant!! Finally I’ve found something
that helped me. Thanks a lot!
October 17, 2014 at 9:24 am
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February 19, 2015 at 7:52 pm
Im only 9 and I can type at 67 words perminute. That is my record\
March 25, 2015 at 12:05 am
120 is near “physically impossible”… really? The key (no pun intended) to fast typing is to treat words as words and not as single letters, memorising the sequence of finger movements that make up the word so it comes out on the fingers like playing a chord. For example, if I’m just typing the word “mother”, I can do it at around 17cps – which comes out to 204wpm, but if I’m typing “but” repeatedly, it goes down to only 9cps or 108wpm. If I try with “but mother”, I get 16.2cps, or 194wpm. As further evidence that fast typists think in words and not letters, give any one a random string of letters and they’ll slow down significantly.
Maybe it is impossible to type fast if your typing strategy is to break words into individual letters and you have to think things like “the – t, h, e” every single time you type a word…
March 25, 2015 at 5:58 am
We also have to consider the fact that this post was made back in 2007, so standards were probably lower back then. That being said, a WPM of 120 is by no means physically impossible. I just took an online typing test for a job, and managed a WPM of 95, with an average of two corrected words per minute (Not words with typos in them, words that I had gone back to and corrected before moving on.)
Honestly, the article sounds an awful lot like the author is trying to justify some kind of slow-typing-speed tragedy that occurred in his/her life. As terrible as that may be, the data is clearly outdated and no longer relevant.
November 7, 2015 at 5:05 am
I find it hard to believe some of the comments on this site. In the study above 0 in 3475 tested typists exceeded 110 wpm while nearly 1 in 5 of the comments above claim to have topped that no problem. Really guys? If you’re going to claim that you can exceed 110 wpm in a valid typing test then you should at least throw in a link to a YouTube video showing you actually do that if you expect to be taken seriously.
November 10, 2015 at 3:25 pm
I’m 16 yrs old and took 1 semester of typing. My peak is 93 wpm and my average is 76 wpm.
December 6, 2015 at 10:13 am
I have been typing for 22 years and can now type 106 wpm with 100% accuracy. I took a typing class in middle school, and upon completion of the class I was typing about 35 wpm with 100% accuracy, using correct fingering and going by touch. Since then, my typing speed has consistently increased. In 10 years, my typing speed increased to 82 wpm. Another decade later and I can now type 106 wpm with 100% accuracy. The online typing test I use requires mistakes to be corrected as you go, so the typing speed is automatically adjusted for 100% accuracy. Also, I saw a while back (in the ’80’s) there was an elderly woman who held the world record typing speed at 140-something wpm. She had been a secretary all her life. So not impossible…
February 4, 2018 at 8:06 am
The article did not say it was impossible to type 120 wpm, it said “nearly impossible.” Nearly impossible would imply that 120 wpm can be achieved but is uncommon….your comparison to a world record of 140 wpm justifies the author’s claim. World records are achievable but they are rare – that is why they are called World Records!🙄
December 14, 2015 at 10:48 pm
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June 13, 2016 at 1:05 am
Because I’m usually typing my thoughts, I just need to type at the speed of thought.
June 22, 2016 at 3:47 pm
I am a much more extreme case and had to throw in my 2 cents when I saw : ). I currently do an average of about 155-160 on most standard 2 minute test This equates to about 5 words a second sometimes, or the sme as a very fast rate of speech verbally. I wish there were still a ton of job opportunities but there arent lol, closed captioning and medical transcription which ive heard is redundant (makes sense). I can break over 200 when it is slang and words that we use daily, and on real tough test I can go down to like 130s (where the test is based around literature and is packed with punctuation). I am such an extreme case that when I was 10 years old my middle school would not allow me to take keyboarding, as someone else surely needed it more and I had to take other electives. Still to this date have not met someone who can keep up, and I just added the winner of the USA typing championships to my facebook, as to hopefully one day meet my match : )
June 22, 2016 at 3:48 pm
Meant to reply to the whole thread, not you specifically. Sorry.
June 22, 2016 at 2:47 pm
Why words per minute instead of chars per minute ? Words varies in length so it does not make sense to me to use WPM as a unit for typing speed. In my opinion it should be CPM, chars per minute. Or am I missing something here ?
June 22, 2016 at 3:50 pm
They do all calculations giving the a WORD the weight of 4 characters. The reason for this is most words are, and especially most transitives and such that we use regularly. They use characters per minute on the ten key, because they have to but since they talk about essays and such, novels by words or pages, going down to the character wouldnt be as effective for memory.
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March 6, 2017 at 10:59 am
I have 167 Wpm
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April 28, 2017 at 10:29 am
As a non-English native speaker, I get a problem as I live in Britain. Keyboard layouts are a pain. I can average about 70 wpm on a UK extended keyboard while I can type about 100 wpm with a Brazilian ABNT2 keyboard. I do change the layout at the OS level but still, some keys are difficult to hit, especially the question mark, plus and minus and some punctuation.
And I also developed CTS (Carpal Tunnel Syndrome) that slowed me down a lot – as well as making my hands feel numb every half hour or so.
August 11, 2017 at 3:13 pm
6% error is 6% of keystrokes, not 6% of words. That means something closer to once every FOUR words.
April 3, 2018 at 9:07 pm
Currently I can type nearly 55-60 words per minute with 98% accuracy. I think for an ordinary blogger this is an handsome speed.
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April 30, 2019 at 8:24 am
I’m able to type about 65-70 wpm with 99% accuracy. This changes occasionally though as I frequently type from my thought. If I was given a challenge to type as many sensible sentences as possible within a minute, my speed could drastically change within a matter of seconds, say 95 to possibly 100 wpm.
April 30, 2019 at 8:28 am
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April 30, 2019 at 8:46 am
Presently, my typing speed is a solid 71 wpm. The thing is, I develop a sense of apprehension in my mind that prevents me from exceeding greater speeds. For instance, i’m best described as a logophile. I tend to articulate the English language too excessively, Therefore, my competence of typing lowers tremendously. To this day, I execute improvising my muscle memory to provide a more efficient way of typing. This is a technique professional typer’s use, regardless of their wording.
May 5, 2019 at 3:34 am
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July 6, 2019 at 9:39 pm
Thank you. I just had the experience of typing something for a friend. She knew I had just had shoulder surgery and still have more to go, but she didn’t feel I was typing quickly enough, and I was making errors…. an artifact of my right arm being slower than my left, but still only around 4-5% as I tried to adjust my speed to my right arm. (I might add that I had been a classical pianist, used to playing whole sonatas etc without error, or noticeable ones) I had told her she could even pay be just $15, as I knew I couldn’t type as quickly as I used to. In fact, she was trying to dictate to me, and would often get lost. I still feel badly about “failing” her, but this is good information for me. I’m not going to speak to her about it, but I wil probably point this out to others who have been thinking they good get a “good” rate out of me while I am recovering!
July 6, 2019 at 9:47 pm
PS: I also “feel” the mistake and correct it. I wondered at the time if I should just go on, but it’s kind of an instinct that I developed during grad school and I’m not certain if I could break it….lol!
December 4, 2019 at 8:00 pm
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January 3, 2020 at 3:31 pm
You must have improved something.
September 9, 2021 at 7:29 am
I use ‘Typing Mentor’ – http://www.typingmentor.com website for my regular practice and lessons purposes. Here I checked my speed around 80-90 wpm. Which is I think above the average.