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Title: What is your typing speed?
Post by: Saft on February 23, 2010, 05:56:19 PM

Was linked to this via another forum.  Thought it would be interesting to post it here.

Typing Speed (http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.php)

My result was 63wpm with three mistakes.
Much better than the touchtyping tests that I had to do for school's technology classes when it was down 43wpm.

So practice does make perfect. :yes

Title: What is your typing speed?
Post by: Serris on February 23, 2010, 06:02:06 PM

53 WPM - 1 mistake.

I do however, prefer my old, heavy, high recoil keyboard, which is not compatible with my laptop.

Title: What is your typing speed?
Post by: landbeforetimelover on February 23, 2010, 06:08:03 PM

92wpm - 0 mistakes

I would have gotten better, but I had to screw around with the timer.  This is seriously a very bad test.  In addition, I'm on my laptop in bed.  If I had been in the ideal situation and if the test was more fair, I could have gotten over 100 if I tried. :p

Title: What is your typing speed?
Post by: Serris on February 23, 2010, 06:14:50 PM

54 WPM, 1 mistake on my heavy keyboard.

The other was 47 WPM, 3 mistakes on my heavy keyboard.

I prefer my heavy keyboard even if it is slightly slower as I have a very hard typing strike.

Title: What is your typing speed?
Post by: DarkHououmon on February 23, 2010, 06:45:27 PM

I'm not too crazy about the test either, but it's mostly due to its length. I have had my typing speed tested using some program (I don't remember the name of it, but it's a tutoring kind of program, for typing) and I like that one better. Last I checked my typing speed was around 70 and 80 WPM, sometimes in the 90s and 100s if I'm lucky. Shame there isn't a typing test that I know of that lets you type whatever you want. That would be more accurate a test; from what I heard, people can type faster when they can type what they want rather than copy what's on the screen. Could be wrong but this is what I've heard.

Title: What is your typing speed?
Post by: landbeforetimelover on February 23, 2010, 08:11:37 PM

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Shame there isn't a typing test that I know of that lets you type whatever you want.

Well, I really didn't want to merge these two topics together (that's why I made another topic), but the program mentioned here can do that and more.  You should check it out:

http://z7.invisionfree.com/thegangoffive/i...wtopic=7583&hl= (http://www.gangoffive.net/index.php?topic=7327&hl=)

Title: What is your typing speed?
Post by: Petrie. on February 23, 2010, 10:03:10 PM

57 wpm with one mistake.  That's about what I average anyway.

Title: What is your typing speed?
Post by: Mumbling on February 24, 2010, 02:35:14 AM

Your speed was: 72wpm.

Congratulations! You made no mistakes, practice does make perfect.

I tend to correct my mistakes as I go on, so I guess my typing is a little faster usually :D

Title: What is your typing speed?
Post by: Waluigifan on February 24, 2010, 09:29:00 AM

Your speed was: 59wpm.

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

Title: What is your typing speed?
Post by: 2007excalibur2007 on February 24, 2010, 09:55:28 AM

87 WPM, 5 mistakes.

*pffftt* :p

Title: What is your typing speed?
Post by: Saft on February 24, 2010, 09:57:37 AM

Yeah sorry about the test.  As I said I was linked to it on another forum.

Oh well, at least it's a better test compared to the ones at school.  Now they were bad.