So, what ya typin?

jonks

Lifer
Feb 7, 2005
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http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.php?

I got 100 wpm on my first test (w/3 mistakes), 99 on my second (with 2 mistakes).

I've read 45-60wpm is good. 60+ for a secretary. Good to know I have something to fall back on.

Hey, it's a slow work day.

EDIT: Oops wrong forum. move to OT pleeeeze?
 

potato28

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Jun 27, 2005
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Slow, I can't do those very well because when I type I have everything planned out in my head already, sorta like writing notes all the time.
 

BassBomb

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Nov 25, 2005
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73wpm 1 mistake
I kept having to correct myself and I didn't start right when I hit the clock :S

I didn't think I was nearly that fast
 

Howard

Lifer
Oct 14, 1999
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Your speed was: 106wpm.

You made 1 mistake, your mistake is shown in bold text:

WHen a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere. I felt that from the moment I woke. And yet, when I started functioning a little more sharply, I misgave. After all, the odds were that it was I who was wrong, and not everyone else, though I did not see how that could be. I went on waiting, tinged with doubt. But presently I had my first bit of objective evidence, a distant clock struck what sounded to me just like eight. I listened hard and suspiciously. Soon another clock began, on a loud, decisive note. In a leisurely fashion it gave an indisputable eight. Then I knew things were awry.

God damned shift pinky.
 

E equals MC2

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Apr 16, 2006
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1st: 75wpm, no mistakes.

2nd: 78 wpm, no mistakes.

These tests are not really relevant in real life since your typing speed is always bottlenecked at coming up with what to write. Unless you're in data entry of course.
 

E equals MC2

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Does anyone use BOTH shift keys correctly? I only use the one shift and never touch the left one. I get 75-78 wpm with it.
 

BassBomb

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Nov 25, 2005
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Originally posted by: E equals MC2
Does anyone use BOTH shift keys correctly? I only use the one shift and never touch the left one. I get 75-78 wpm with it.

I only use the left one

my right pinky does the enter key work
 

Baked

Lifer
Dec 28, 2004
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Meh, it's not really a test unless you including numbers. I'll be impressed if you can do 100wpm in a test w/ numbers.
 

Azurik

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Jan 23, 2002
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With a laptop:

Your speed was: 87wpm.

You made 1 mistake, your mistake is shown in bold text:

I could have profitably rented out the little room in front of my press on Market Road, with a view of the fountain; it was coveted by every would-be shopkeeper in our town. I was considered a fool for not getting my money's worth out of it, since all the space I need for my press and its personnel was at the back, beyond the blue curtain. But I could not explain myself to sordid and calculating people. I hung up a framed picture of Goddess Laxmi poised on her lotus, holding aloft the bounties of earth in her four hands, and through her grave I did not do too badly.

Should be "grace", so sue me.


Your speed was: 88wpm.

You made 1 mistake, your mistake is shown in bold text:

The Mole had been working very hard all the morning, spring-cleaning his little home. First with brooms, then with dusters; then on ladders and steps and chairs, with a brush and a pail of whitewash; till he had dust in his throat and eyes, and splashes of whitewash all over his black fur, and an aching back and weary arms. Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with it spirit of divine discontent and longing. It was a small wonder, then, that he suddenly flung down his brush on the floor, said 'Bother!' and 'Hang spring-cleaning!' and bolted out of the house without even waiting to put on his coat.

Should be "its", so sue me.


With a regular keyboard:

Your speed was: 96wpm.

You made 14 mistakes, your mistakes are shown in bold text:

Ashenden was on his way back to Genva. Then ight was stormy and thwe wind blew cold from the mountains, but the stodgy little steamer plodded sturdily throught the choppe waters of the lake. A scudding rain, just turning into sleet, swept the deck in angry gusts, like a naggging woman who cannot leave a subject alone. Ashenden has been to France in order to write and dispatch a report. A day or two before, about give in the afeternoon, an Indian agent of his had come to see him in his roomsl it was only by a lucky chance that he was in for he had no appointment with him, and the agenet's instructions weret o come to the hotel only in the case of urgent importance.

Your speed was: 105wpm.

You made 3 mistakes, your mistakes are shown in bold text:

I could have profitbly rented out the little room in front of my pres son Market Road, with a view of the fountain; it was coveted by every would-be shopkeeper in our town. I was considered a fool for not getting money's worth out of it, since all the space I need for my press and its personnel was at the back, beyond the blue curtain. But I could not explain myself to sordid and calculating people. I hung up a framed picture of Goddess Laxmi poised on her lotus, holding aloft the bounties of earth in her four hands, and through her grace I did not do too badly.


Edit: I do not type properly. Only use my right thumb for the spacebar, right pinky for shift and both my pointy and middle fingers. No ring fingers... EVER!
 

potato28

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Jun 27, 2005
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Originally posted by: BassBomb
Originally posted by: E equals MC2
Does anyone use BOTH shift keys correctly? I only use the one shift and never touch the left one. I get 75-78 wpm with it.

I only use the left one

my right pinky does the enter key work

I use both of the shifts, and multi-task the pinky for enter/backspace/shift when I need it.
 

amdhunter

Lifer
May 19, 2003
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Your speed was: 44wpm.
Congratulations! You made no mistakes, practice does make perfect.

lol for some reason I know I type a billion times faster when I am responding to threads on ATOT. Something along the lines of an eleventybillion words a minute.
 

jersiq

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May 18, 2005
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35 wpm, 6 mistakes

I have never in my life taken a typing class. Good thing, as I would have failed miserably.
 

Aikouka

Lifer
Nov 27, 2001
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Fastest so far was 97 (3 errors), which is actually slow for me. I attribute it to the weird words as I'm a lot faster at typing words that I know than typing these strange city names and words that I've never really used.
 

Descartes

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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Your speed was: 142wpm.

You made 6 mistakes, your mistakes are shown in bold text:

At ten minjtues past foru, of an evening lat ein September, I sat in the buggy and swung out of the livery stable that boarded my horse. Peter, the horse, was a chunky bay, not too large, nor too small; and I had stumbled on to him through none of my sagacity. To tell the plain truth, I wanted to get home, I had to have a horse that could stand the trip, no other likely looking horse was offered, this one was -on a trial drive he looked as if he might do, and so I bought him -no, not quite- I arranged with the owner that I should amke one complete trip with him and pay a fee of five dollarsw in case I did not keep him. As the sequence showed, I could not have found a better horse for the work in hand.

.........

That's pretty normal. I can get upwards of 160wpm, but not with a laptop.
 

Chronoshock

Diamond Member
Jul 6, 2004
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101 wpm no errors. I spent like 10 seconds spelling chrysanthemums though.
It was lovely, thought Mrs. Miniver, nodding good-bye to the flower-woman and carrying her big sheaf of chrysanthemums down the street with a kind of ceremonious joy, as though it were a cornucopia; it was lovely, this settling down again, this tidying away of the summer into its box, this taking up of the thread of one's life where the holidays (irrelevant interlude) had made one drop it. Not that she didn't enjoy the holidays: but she always felt - and it was, perhaps, the measure of her peculiar happiness - a little relieved when they were over. Her normal life pleased her so well that she was half afraid to step out of its frame in case one day she should find herself unable to get back.
 

Descartes

Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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Your speed was: 140wpm.

You made 2 mistakes, your mistakes are shown in bold text:

I will redeem all this on Percy's head, and in the closing of some glorious day be bold to tell you that I am your son, when I will wear a garment all of blood, and stain my favours in a bloody mask, which, wash'd away, shall scour my shame with it; and that shall be the day, whene'er it lights, that this same child of honour and renown, this gallant Hotspur, this all-praised knight, and your untought-of Harry chance to meet. For every honour sitting on his helm, would they were multitudes, and on my head my shames redoubled! For the time will come that I shall make this northern youth exchange his glorious deeds for my idnignities.

...........

That's my second time. Not sure I'll even break 150wpm at this point.
 

TheVrolok

Lifer
Dec 11, 2000
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Did it a few times and stayed around 105 wpm with 1-5 errors. I should try this on my laptop keyboard.