What is your WPM?

[dewcorps]

I will start off, my average WPM is usually around 51, what is yours?

Here is a typing test just in case.

[oneproduct]

There have been some other threads but there hasn't been one in awhile, so I'm sure this is fine.

Mine is about 82 average, of course it really depends on how difficult the text is. Generally my lowest is around 74 and if the text is real easy I can do around 95. These are texts from typeracer and keyhero. In the TypeFaster typing tutor on the "Common Words" exercise I get just above 100 pretty consistently, but it's both easy text and I've done it so many times that I know what comes next without even having to think about it.

[dorkvader]

I run about 65-85, but I'm slow compared with some here.

I remember there was a good compendium of them not too long ago where people posted typeracer (I think?) screenshots, and there was a list. I was about at the bottom.

Recently, I had to transcribe some audio in QWERTY, and I surprised myself as to how fast I could do it, but it was a lot less comfortable for me than Dvorak. I think I'm about the same speed in QWERTY, but I tire out faster.

Hmm, the flash won't load for me.

[rvrebel]

80-85. When I'm typing I feel like I can go faster but my fingers just can't keep up. Which sounds stupid but if only my hands were more coordinated!

Everytime Ive tried these tests my wife has to come in the room to see wtf is all the noise. (usually gaming with headphones)

[iindigo]

Around 65-70 according to tests, but the combination of having to read off what I'm typing plus tests making me flustered slow me down on them. When I'm just typing thoughts straight from my head, I can easily go at least 20WPM faster.

[Tony]

For typing speedtest, I suggest this website

http://hi-games.net/typing





This website has nice option of replaying the whole test you've just done. It has 4 different test times.

If you are typing in Colemak/Dvorak rather than Qwerty, you can also set the layout to reflect your layout while typing as well as replaying.

Sean Wrona, World Typing Champion, is on top of all records


My hi-games.net profile:
30sec: 84wpm
1min: 78wpm
2mins: 74wpm
5mins: 71wpm

These speeds are only the fastest speed. My average speed is around 65-66wpm.

[Quarzac]

I just did a typeracer. I hit 51. That's basically the speed I was at on my Model M, so I'm glad I'm back at it on my Cherry blues.

[Foodmanchew]

I recently learned how to touch type in September. On a site like this http://speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com/  with random easy words I get between 80-95 depending on how warmed up I am. (This is on a rubber dome or scissor switch keyboard). If I'm using a site like http://play.typeracer.com/ or http://app.typrx.com/ with passages, I'm usually around 70-85. Once there are numbers and symbols, I start slowing down. I'm sure once I'm typing on MX blues, my speed will increase. I'm hoping to consistently be around 100 by the end of the year.

[Playtrumpet]

My old QWERTY speed was on average between 110-120. I stopped playing typing games for a while and my speed dropped to around 105-110 average. Then I wanted to mix things up and so I learned Dvorak.

I made this decision a few months ago, and I'm up to 100-110 average (much higher with easier words as easy/common words are especially easy in Dvorak). Because of this advantage, I've broken my high speed records with Dvorak, but I'm still working to build up to my old average speed. I spent years getting to that high average, so I'm patient about it.

[Namkung]

I would say I average 140~150 on 10fastfingers.
no way I could hit that on other typing test sites though with punctuations, numbers, and etc. probably 120~130 on those sites.
http://profile.10-fast-fingers.com/39/Lei%20Namkung

i find myself typing fastest with red switches.
when i went to do the test on my blue after using red for some time, i found myself reading the words faster than i was typing them lol

[drsauced]

I'm usually around 80WPM on typeracer.  Much less if I'm drunk, but not much more if I'd had a lot of coffee.

[bienc]

Just got an 89wpm on the test posted by OP about astronauts. I think I could have gone faster but the year "1959" got me.

The second test put up by Tony, I got 97wpm.

Typing on my girlfriend's Sony VAIO laptop with island/chiclet keyboard.

[cactux]

For how long are you able to hold such WPM ?

[bienc]

I only did one minute tests and on typeracer I just got an 89 and an 85. So I guess my average is around the mid-80s. I can probably keep it up for a little while if I just have to read-type. I'm never in a position to keep typing for extended periods of time so not sure where I max out.

[cactux]

iWhat about holding such speed after 10 min? and your accuracy?

[bienc]

That might be pushing it, for me at least. Never really tried it, and I don't see any of the tests listed going for more than 5 minutes.

[Skoobs]

only get like 50... was getting 80 yesterday lol

[nar]

According to type racer my average is 100.
On another note anyone here have their own version of touch typing rather than the standard homerow stuff? Like my hands usually rest on:
Shift, A, W, F, Hand Rest, Hand Rest, B, J, K, '

[RColinTaylor]

On my first Dry Run of OP's preferred test I scored an 83 but there was a lot of hickups involved in the beginning; I am not too great at capitalizing names and doing formalities associated with names.

[Foodmanchew]

I just created a profile at Speedtest fast fingers. I topped out at 92.  http://profile.10-fast-fingers.com/7787/Foodmanchew

[dippingriz]

~65 with normal typing ~84 was the max for me.  I don't count the test unless it's gets less than 5% error.  Speed is nice, but I like to retain some accuracy.

[SBI]

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Average on typeracer is 109. English or German doesn't really make a difference for me. When working I never reach those speeds because coding isn't really represented by theses tests, so it's pratically useless

[curro123083]

I will try some of these test sometime, but when typing up Technical specification documents, I go around 90-92 and that is average for long typing sessions, speed wise I average around 112ish, I can go faster but I end up making mistakes on this crappy rubber dome, cannot wait for WASD to get red switches then Ill go into BEAST MODE! lol

[NumberJ]

My average on Keyhero or Typeracer is around 115-120. Typing for a long time doesn't really affect my typing speed in any way, although my fingers do tend to get tired after an hour or two.

[weenis]

80-95, I use typeracer as well.

[Lanx]

I for one never advocate these typing tests as "accurate" or even useful, i'm not a dictation person, no i use the computer to type out words that come from my head into the computer. And with that I do it nearly one to one, of course I could talk faster, but I'm happy with the way I can just "spew" out mind to type if i have to. I think someone linked one of those programs where it just gives you a wpm of how a "real" person types instead of looking at the screen and reverbing stuff doesn't actually measure your true speed, unless all you do is dictation.

[bckai]

I'd say I average between 92-95 words per minute. I topped out once around 98. Haven't broke triple digits yet, but I'm working on it.

[Magna224]

I vary from the 50-65 WPM range. My typing style is odd and keys I don't use often sometimes mess me up. My maximum ever was somewhere in the 90s in high school.

[Playtrumpet]

I can maintain a standard/easy literary text for 5 minutes at 108 WPM apparently. I'd say that's actually a good estimate of my current average with Dvorak.

[cactux]

I can maintain an standard/easy literary text for 5 minutes at 108 WPM apparently. I'd say that's actually a good estimate of my current average with Dvorak.

very impressive :-) . To reach such spead you must spend severals hours typing (straight hours) per day. Let me guess you are a writter :-)