What is your WPM?

[epzy]

Can just get over 100 on Typeracer and average 85 - 90 on 10fastfingers.

That's odd, 10FF always seemed easier to get higher. My average is 150 on 10FF but only 120 or so on typeracer.

122 max on typeracer here, 110 max on 10FF. I type a lot faster on 10FF, but I get really stressed out because I lose control.

[Smasher816]

Can just get over 100 on Typeracer and average 85 - 90 on 10fastfingers.

That's odd, 10FF always seemed easier to get higher. My average is 150 on 10FF but only 120 or so on typeracer.

122 max on typeracer here, 110 max on 10FF. I type a lot faster on 10FF, but I get really stressed out because I lose control.

I'm in the same boat. I have hit 110 on typeracer but can barely get 90 on 10FF. I guess there are some short and easy sprints on typeracer that let me hit the higher speeds while its harder to keep that up on longer tests such as 10FF.

[divito]

Haven't practiced enough lately.

I generally do 90-120 on 10FF; I hardly ever do Type Racer though, and am sitting at about 85~ WPM there as of what I raced there yesterday. Too many mistakes.

[wharrislv]

I get in the mid 80s pretty consistently.  I haven't improved for years.  I am much more accurate and have to "think" less when I'm just typing straight from my mind as opposed to dictation.  I thought getting blanks would help me learn how to touch type better (I STILL get the symbols wrong sometimes, even after a year) but it hasn't helped at all.  I'm probably going to give in and get some white printed keycaps for my HHKB at work.  At  home it doesn't matter as much and I rarely do anything but forums and IRC during those hours so **** the symbols   I think its strange that I haven't gotten used to symbols, but the arrow keys, and most of the function layer are second nature, and I find myself reaching for them even when I'm on other people's keyboards.  The worst is the backspace/del area, I'm ALWAYS hitting those wrong on other people's keyboards.  That and the caps lock/ctrl switch.  I do it even on my TKL boards and laptops so thats not an issue, but definitely using other people's machines its an issue.

Sometimes I wonder if I shouldn't just forego alternate layouts altogether....but then massdrop is doing more ergodox so here I go again...

[davkol]

I maintain  ~60 wpm for 5+ minutes on keyboards I'm not familiar with, but it's sooo boooring.

[blingcaps]

average 120-130 on 10ff.  record is 150 on the dot.

[Sifo]

lol type racer sprints are fun



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[Techno Trousers]

This was just a spur of the moment try. If I get really serious I can probably get this up by 10-15 WPM, but why bother.  )

[ynrozturk]

I just can't seem to break 105 WPM no matter what I do.

[1pq]

Broke 120 for the first time (back to qwerty on my 87U 55g)

[Dubsgalore]

just got 91 #yus

[Justintoxicated]

You guys are all very fast I'm no where near your speeds, probably around 50 average due to mistakes.  Of course I can type faster when it's something I'm thinking of rather than trying to nail every ",.; on typeracer.  Also my right pinky can't be used for typing it's either locked forward or back.  Never really thought about it until recently. I can do a grab/clenching motion fine, but I cannot stab at a key, I don't even use it to hit the enter key, I use my ring finger instead.

Anything I can do?  I'm not very accurate with my left pinky either but it does not lock forward or back as bad as my right hand.  My other 4 fingers are fine but compensating with them throws off my alignment.

If I type home row style I'm lucky to hit 30 wpm

[ynrozturk]

I have the same problem with my right pinky as well, it just doesn't want to cooperate. I still hit P with my ring finger.

I learned to touch type through this website - http://www.typingweb.com

Just keep at it for like a few weeks and it comes pretty naturally after that. In fact I should get back on there to sort out my right pinky finger.

[1pq]

Broke 120 for the first time (back to qwerty on my 87U 55g)

Just got even faster. Love this 87U!

[ynrozturk]

Finally did 110!

[Smasher816]

Randomly decided to pull up 10FF today. Managed to bang out a new high score for that site.

[Fragil1ty]

110-125 /w reds.
115-130 /w browns/blues
110-125 /w blacks (hate using blacks though, winds me up).


I just can't seem to get much higher on reds, I always seem to be getting 110+ with about 5 typo's and a few words with errors and backspaces and what not.


Will hit that 150 mark with Reds one day though, I'm happy with this though, .

[Justintoxicated]

I doubt I'll ever be in the top 90% but I'm ok with that.  At work it's all about IDE shortcuts, ctrl space etc   Still I enjoy a nice keyboard, even if I can't 100% touchtype.

All you guys in the top 90% do you type out everything properly or just go with the flow.  Keeping my fingers one home-row and typing everything properly drastically drops my wpm.  The whole proper thing kills me with no right pinky finger. I tend to hover and type using my properly working fingers, but i suppose i should slow way down and practice more.

[epzy]

I doubt I'll ever be in the top 90% but I'm ok with that.  At work it's all about IDE shortcuts, ctrl space etc   Still I enjoy a nice keyboard, even if I can't 100% touchtype.

All you guys in the top 90% do you type out everything properly or just go with the flow.  Keeping my fingers one home-row and typing everything properly drastically drops my wpm.  The whole proper thing kills me with no right pinky finger. I tend to hover and type using my properly working fingers, but i suppose i should slow way down and practice more.

How many WPM is the top 90%? I definitely don't type 'properly'. I can get 100-122 WPM on typeracer typing like this all the time: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106134265/2014-03-10%2021.45.01.mp4

[Linkbane]

I doubt I'll ever be in the top 90% but I'm ok with that.  At work it's all about IDE shortcuts, ctrl space etc   Still I enjoy a nice keyboard, even if I can't 100% touchtype.

All you guys in the top 90% do you type out everything properly or just go with the flow.  Keeping my fingers one home-row and typing everything properly drastically drops my wpm.  The whole proper thing kills me with no right pinky finger. I tend to hover and type using my properly working fingers, but i suppose i should slow way down and practice more.

How many WPM is the top 90%? I definitely don't type 'properly'. I can get 100-122 WPM on typeracer typing like this all the time: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106134265/2014-03-10%2021.45.01.mp4

One of the most hilarious things I have seen is the consistent trend for people to think that not typing with proper technique is something praiseworthy.

I type with a modified standard a Dvorak technique (using middle finger for 'p' ('r' in QWERTY)). I use the opposite hand for shift, and all that. When speed actually is made to matter more than just what a good level is and it becomes a sport, every optimization is important. That said, standard technique (and I) have still found no use for the right thumb.

[epzy]

I doubt I'll ever be in the top 90% but I'm ok with that.  At work it's all about IDE shortcuts, ctrl space etc   Still I enjoy a nice keyboard, even if I can't 100% touchtype.

All you guys in the top 90% do you type out everything properly or just go with the flow.  Keeping my fingers one home-row and typing everything properly drastically drops my wpm.  The whole proper thing kills me with no right pinky finger. I tend to hover and type using my properly working fingers, but i suppose i should slow way down and practice more.

How many WPM is the top 90%? I definitely don't type 'properly'. I can get 100-122 WPM on typeracer typing like this all the time: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/106134265/2014-03-10%2021.45.01.mp4

One of the most hilarious things I have seen is the consistent trend for people to think that not typing with proper technique is something praiseworthy.

I type with a modified standard a Dvorak technique (using middle finger for 'p' ('r' in QWERTY)). I use the opposite hand for shift, and all that. When speed actually is made to matter more than just what a good level is and it becomes a sport, every optimization is important. That said, standard technique (and I) have still found no use for the right thumb.

Why do you quote me? "One of the most hilarious things I have seen is the consistent trend for people to think that not typing with proper technique is something praiseworthy." I hope that's not meant for me. If you think I praise not typing properly you must be... something.

[minho]

I doubt I'll ever be in the top 90% but I'm ok with that.  At work it's all about IDE shortcuts, ctrl space etc   Still I enjoy a nice keyboard, even if I can't 100% touchtype.

All you guys in the top 90% do you type out everything properly or just go with the flow.  Keeping my fingers one home-row and typing everything properly drastically drops my wpm.  The whole proper thing kills me with no right pinky finger. I tend to hover and type using my properly working fingers, but i suppose i should slow way down and practice more.

I was too lazy to read through this thread, but from reading just this post, you have no right pinky finger...? (Or a not properly functioning one?)

Never fear! I used to type slightly improperly - I hated using my right pinky finger (everything else was correct though; I still kept my fingers on the home row for the part) and could achieve 110+ wpm. I transitioned into typing almost completely correctly (still no opposite shifts.. I just use whichever I feel like using ) and went up about 10-15 wpm, but am stuck right there currently

Slowing down and practicing is one method to do it, but I'm rather impatient and I like to just change one thing at a time so my speed doesn't go down too significantly but I can still try to improve. Perhaps try just a certain finger, set of fingers, or hands (or technique such as opposite shifts).

[tricheboars]

typing on my day 1 ergodox i did this:

Your speed was: 23wpm.

You made 7 mistakes, your mistakes are shown in bold text:

Mayday afternoon in Oxford Street, and Felix Freeland, a little late, on his way from Hampstead to his brother John's house in Porchester Gardens. Felix Freeland, author, wearing the very gray top hat of the season. A compromise, that like many other things in his liffe and works, between individually and the accepted view of things, aestheticicm and fashion, the critical snse and authority. After the meetung at John's, to disvuss the doings of the family of his brother Morton Freeland, and better known as Tod, he would perhaps look in on the caricatures at the English Gallery, and visit one duchess in Mayfair, concerning the George Richard Memorial.

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what that website had me type for the test was friggin retarded.  I mean what the ****? how many commas was that?

[compgeke]

I got 108 on the 10fastfingers test using my Model M. If I could be bothered I would try on MX Blacks - I'll do horribly for sure.

I could probably type faster if I ever used my pinkies when typing. Weird habit I picked up on when teaching myself to type over time.

[zig_ziglar]

I did the 10 fingers test while having a conversation with a customer at work and got 110. Anywhere from 130-150 under normal circumstances when concentrating. I'm thinking about learning colemak, but I'm waiting to hear back from IT about admin privledges to install the keyboard layout.

[Linkbane]

I did the 10 fingers test while having a conversation with a customer at work and got 110. Anywhere from 130-150 under normal circumstances when concentrating. I'm thinking about learning colemak, but I'm waiting to hear back from IT about admin privledges to install the keyboard layout.

Your signature result, while now I know is false, seemed to be realistic. I guess not.

[minho]

I did the 10 fingers test while having a conversation with a customer at work and got 110. Anywhere from 130-150 under normal circumstances when concentrating. I'm thinking about learning colemak, but I'm waiting to hear back from IT about admin privledges to install the keyboard layout.

Your signature result, while now I know is false, seemed to be realistic. I guess not.

How do you know it's false...?

[MiBe]

This is in Dutch, I'm a little bit slower in English (around 120/125 WPM).

[Linkbane]

I did the 10 fingers test while having a conversation with a customer at work and got 110. Anywhere from 130-150 under normal circumstances when concentrating. I'm thinking about learning colemak, but I'm waiting to hear back from IT about admin privledges to install the keyboard layout.

Your signature result, while now I know is false, seemed to be realistic. I guess not.

How do you know it's false...?

Quote, "130-150 under normal circumstances".

[SpAmRaY]

I did the 10 fingers test while having a conversation with a customer at work and got 110. Anywhere from 130-150 under normal circumstances when concentrating. I'm thinking about learning colemak, but I'm waiting to hear back from IT about admin privledges to install the keyboard layout.

Your signature result, while now I know is false, seemed to be realistic. I guess not.

How do you know it's false...?

Quote, "130-150 under normal circumstances".

Well maybe its 180-185 when 'trying hard'

[Demetrium]

90WPM. I really wish my typing style wasn't so FUBAR. I really only use like 3-4 fingers. I tried using an ErgoDox and my form made it extremely difficult. I'm almost 30 now and it felt impossible to unlearn all the years of typing wrong.

[Zombly]

105 WPM, On screen, 90 WPM if reading a document on paper.

[zig_ziglar]

90WPM. I really wish my typing style wasn't so FUBAR. I really only use like 3-4 fingers. I tried using an ErgoDox and my form made it extremely difficult. I'm almost 30 now and it felt impossible to unlearn all the years of typing wrong.

It was a fluke to have hit that speed. The word sequence barely deviated from the home row. I don't think it in any way reflects my speed in the real world. I loaded up the old school version of The Typing of the Dead last night haha such a cheesy game, but quite challenging on harder difficulty! Definitely helps you identify any flaws in your technique.

[Linkbane]

90WPM. I really wish my typing style wasn't so FUBAR. I really only use like 3-4 fingers. I tried using an ErgoDox and my form made it extremely difficult. I'm almost 30 now and it felt impossible to unlearn all the years of typing wrong.

It was a fluke to have hit that speed. The word sequence barely deviated from the home row. I don't think it in any way reflects my speed in the real world. I loaded up the old school version of The Typing of the Dead last night haha such a cheesy game, but quite challenging on harder difficulty! Definitely helps you identify any flaws in your technique.

Very nice either way, still proves you can sustain it on simpler texts.
Looking forward to trying ToTD when my laptop is fixed. 

[zig_ziglar]

90WPM. I really wish my typing style wasn't so FUBAR. I really only use like 3-4 fingers. I tried using an ErgoDox and my form made it extremely difficult. I'm almost 30 now and it felt impossible to unlearn all the years of typing wrong.

It was a fluke to have hit that speed. The word sequence barely deviated from the home row. I don't think it in any way reflects my speed in the real world. I loaded up the old school version of The Typing of the Dead last night haha such a cheesy game, but quite challenging on harder difficulty! Definitely helps you identify any flaws in your technique.

Very nice either way, still proves you can sustain it on simpler texts.
Looking forward to trying ToTD when my laptop is fixed. 

Cheers. I really want to get fast enough to be able to type what people are saying as fast as they say it. I guess that'd be in excess of 160wpm constantly. Might be a long shot, but the ToTD game is a good a place as any to practice

[Linkbane]

90WPM. I really wish my typing style wasn't so FUBAR. I really only use like 3-4 fingers. I tried using an ErgoDox and my form made it extremely difficult. I'm almost 30 now and it felt impossible to unlearn all the years of typing wrong.

It was a fluke to have hit that speed. The word sequence barely deviated from the home row. I don't think it in any way reflects my speed in the real world. I loaded up the old school version of The Typing of the Dead last night haha such a cheesy game, but quite challenging on harder difficulty! Definitely helps you identify any flaws in your technique.

Very nice either way, still proves you can sustain it on simpler texts.
Looking forward to trying ToTD when my laptop is fixed. 

Cheers. I really want to get fast enough to be able to type what people are saying as fast as they say it. I guess that'd be in excess of 160wpm constantly. Might be a long shot, but the ToTD game is a good a place as any to practice

I always have fun trying to transcribe people around me when I'm watching things or just have my keyboard out when people are talking. Very fun and it reinforces speech to action conversion very well.

[admiralvorian]

somewhere around 80 i think

[Justintoxicated]

I have the same problem with my right pinky as well, it just doesn't want to cooperate. I still hit P with my ring finger.

I learned to touch type through this website - http://www.typingweb.com

Just keep at it for like a few weeks and it comes pretty naturally after that. In fact I should get back on there to sort out my right pinky finger.

Thank you for that link.  So, I'm sooooo slow typing the way you are supposed to.....My first test was only 22 wpm keeping my fingers on home how.  I have worked up to around 40 now over the last couple days.  I think my pinkey will work ok for this, but I do have to slow way down to use it without screwing up too much.  "?" really screw me up as well as pressing the left shift... Going back and doing corrections does not help on the typing test so you gotta get everything right on the first try.

[Linkbane]

I have the same problem with my right pinky as well, it just doesn't want to cooperate. I still hit P with my ring finger.

I learned to touch type through this website - http://www.typingweb.com

Just keep at it for like a few weeks and it comes pretty naturally after that. In fact I should get back on there to sort out my right pinky finger.

Thank you for that link.  So, I'm sooooo slow typing the way you are supposed to.....My first test was only 22 wpm keeping my fingers on home how.  I have worked up to around 40 now over the last couple days.  I think my pinkey will work ok for this, but I do have to slow way down to use it without screwing up too much.  "?" really screw me up as well as pressing the left shift... Going back and doing corrections does not help on the typing test so you gotta get everything right on the first try.

Remember to use the opposite hand of what you're about to type for Shift.

[yuktsi]

90-100 WPM very low accuracy
any tips to break 100?

[Linkbane]

90-100 WPM very low accuracy
any tips to break 100?

Nothing special, relax when you're typing and practice.

[Frenir]

I have about 75-90 WPM (with 10 fast fingers), I hope to one day to reach a 100 WPM.

[esko997]

Cant believe how fast some of ya'll type...

I just tested now and got an average of 47 -- and I though I was a fast typer lol.   

[mrelectric]

about 110~

[ikoma]

Can burst up to like 120 if I am in the zone

[thestage]

I'm all over the place, really.  10 fingers speed tests are generally around 100 (last test: 110 on a model m), but anyone who thinks those are representative of real world typing speed is kidding themselves.  The highest I ever got is 122.  type race is usually quite a bit lower, because you have to do things like "type words that are more than four letters long," "capitalize stuff," and "occasionally type a piece of punctuation, a symbol, or a capital letter." Sometimes when I type I'm undoubtedly doing something like 120 wpm, but there are also times when I stumble or freeze a lot or just mess up.  I think the idea of a realistic, measurable typing speed is basically bunk for anyone but the very best typists. though perhaps people with something approaching proper typing form might be a little more consistent, whatever their speed might be.  I rarely use pinkies, my right hand tends to float, and I usually hit the space bar with my right index finger.  My wrists are often at strange angles.  And I have some slight nerve damage in my left hand that has some effect as well.

[StylinGreymon]

Now that I'm working out the kinks in a modified Colemak layout, it's about -4.

On qwerty, 60~

[phatdood9]

How do you guys type so fast on 10fastfingers and those racing sites?

I always misread part of a passage and type the wrong thing ... maybe I am slightly dyslexic 

[kohi]

around 115-125 wpm~

[MiBe]

How do you guys type so fast on 10fastfingers and those racing sites?

I always misread part of a passage and type the wrong thing ... maybe I am slightly dyslexic 

Reading is an important factor on those sites though. I read around 4 to 5 words ahead of what I'm typing at that particular moment.