What's your Typing Speed?

Jenn's thread on her resume got me thinking about typing speed. I'll probably be low on the totem pole here, but I was wondering nonetheless. There's a free typing test at www.typingtest.com where you can measure your speed and accuracy. I'm going to go take it again and see if I can improve.....

OK, I got 58 WPM with 97% accuracy on the 3 minute Strategic Alliance test.

Test name= Tigers in the wild
Gross speed= 42 WPM
Errors= 2
Net Speed= 40 WPM
Accuracy= 95%

Not bad eh?

Strategic Alliance
1 min.

58 wpm
93% accuracy

I got 80wpm with 100% acurracy the first and only time.
That's generally about how I always do.
My fastest time in college was 132wpm, but yeah 80 is my average now adays.

Originally posted by AngelzOO
I got 80wpm with 100% acurracy the first and only time.
That's generally about how I always do.
My fastest time in college was 132wpm, but yeah 80 is my average now adays.

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Holy $H!T, your hands must fly!

21 WPM with 76% accuracy.....and darn proud of it!

The last time I was tested, which was when I was applying for jobs about a month ago, I typed about 52WPM with 98% accuracy, so I guess thats about 50 WPM.

Tamme: lol yeah sometimes. In messanger I have A LOT of typo's, my hands to type at the same speed my brain is going, so I have a lot of issues, but if I'm looking at something and typing from that, it's a lot better.

One of my teachers in like 2nd grade was sooo fast I was always amazed with it and I want to be able to "type like her some day" So I started a lot of typing lessons when I was in 4th grade and have never stopped. But I guess that's what happens when you sit at your computer almost 24/7 for most of your life, took even more typing lessons in college (even though I already knew how to type but it was better then paying $50 to wave the 4 typing courses each.) Back in 2001 when I had one of the computer based jobs and I was working 80+ hours a week, not to mention all my times at home, I actually got tenditis in my pointer finger from CLICKING TO MUCH! They had to force me to take a leave of absence to go to their company's doctor/therapist thing to get it taken care, of cause I was just shrugging the pain off as something that would heal in time, but I was wrong. =p

Here's how I did!

Test Name: Huckleberry Fin
Gross Speed: 44 WPM
Errors: 3 Words
Net Speed: 43 WPM
Accuracy: 96%

Not Bad!!

75 WPM with 98% accuracy... And I took two years of typing in school! Sheesh

60 WPM with 97% accuracy. But I think I go faster when I'm not reading and typing, like when I'm making it up as I go . . .

When I first started working, I took a typing test (I was a temp.) and I remember getting a 75wpm with 100% accuracy... I thought my skills have gone down since then, but I guess not...

Test Name: Fishing in Finland
Test Time: 01:00
Gross Speed: 92 WPM
Errors: 0
Accuracy: 100%

41 WPM
Accuracy 100%

That is way better than I thought. I guess junior high typing class paid off.

75 WPM with 100% accuracy.

There is a cool game on www.popcap.com called word shark that tests your typing - if you do poorly you will be eaten by sharks!

81 WPM, 100% accuracy.

Well, my skills have deteriorated, but I can still type!

When in high school I joined this program where you went to school in the morning and had all your free periods bunched up in the afternoon so you could get a job. You had to choose either retail or office. I chose the office program, and got a job as a receptionist for Encyclopedia Britannica. But you had to take the office skills course (which included typing), and you had to join this nationwide club thing (I don't remember its name). But there were city-wide, then state-wide, then national competitions (if you moved up the ladder).

At 110 WPM and 100% accuracy, I placed 3rd in the nation (in 1980).

These days, at 40, I just tested out at 80 WPM with one error, so net 79 WPM.

Not bad for an old lady!

... but for me, I can type faster (I don't know if it's a LOT faster) if it's just typing what I'm thinking and not from reading something....

OMG.....you people have flying fingers!! I have always tested the same, usually between 56 - 60 wpm.

Originally posted by binkyhoo
21 WPM with 76% accuracy.....and darn proud of it!

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I wish you could know how I proud - 24 (!) WPM, especially iÃ:censor: you'll remember that I have real problems with spelling!
Hope one day I'll reach 60-70 WPM.
And one more - 100% accuracy and No mistackes