Fast-fingers is a bit inaccurate insofar it counts actual typed words and not wpm. wpm := cpm / 5.
On fast-fingers in English I'll get about 440 cpm, in German 600 cpm. Nicely shows the difference between one's native language and English.
Average about 55 to 62 wpm (on white alps).
I have a feeling I'd be faster if my fingers weren't so strong from playing guitar and various home improvement projects. I get a lot of accidental keypresses on the cherry brown Filcos and Topre rubber domes.
Here's a german typing test:
Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
Congratulations, you've just typed 1 WPM!
I tell everyone my guitar playing would be faster if I didn't use the keyboard so much.
FASTEST TYPER EVER! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4v1FXBYBsI&feature=related)
Warning, this YouTube video is so bad it's good.
Typeracer is addicting...I'm currently up to about 60WPM
typeracer IS fun. I just tried it, won a 'race' at 100wpm :D
Those races need to be longer though. Do they get longer if you keep racing?
Welly, It's a domehead icon!!
Are you typing on the modded one? I was worried when I didn't see any posts today.
Unlike you I dont have one of 'dem fancy shmancy electric screwdrivers ;D )
Actually I found it better to do the screws by hand so you don't strip anything. The black ones especially, they are only threaded at the ends IIRC.
Good exercise.
Using TypingTest.com I clocked in at 143wpm, though I was hitting the 150s in the beginning before my fingers started stumbling on the laptop keyboard.
And I thought I was weird.
:DShow Image(http://www.meatmalletstudios.com/graphics/_tshirt/full/gluesniffer.jpg)
I need to stop derailing my own threads...
So, those who do type 100+ WPM, how do you do it? Just come naturally? Or did you do a lot of extra typing exercises at some point?
But the only way to really learn this is by typing, typing, typing.
Showoff :rolleyes:
Pictures or it didn't happen :biggrin:
I do believe that English is harder to type on QWERTY layout than my Mother Tongue. Weird though lol not just because of that, but English's vocabularies like to stick on left hand (which is I'm having difficulty to type)For me as a lefty, that's actually quite practical. My "left-hand zone" extends pretty far to the right, certainly up to the P-L-M line (no touch typist, obviously). The right hand is mainly for the "commandy" stuff, like Backspace, Return or period. If I want to type real fast, I actually tend to stick to the left hand only - my coordination isn't the best. I can hit almost 100 wpm like that in a synthetic benchmark (read: some boring test sentence), but I think my average is more like 50..60 wpm.
For me as a lefty, that's actually quite practical. My "left-hand zone" extends pretty far to the right, certainly up to the P-L-M line (no touch typist, obviously). The right hand is mainly for the "commandy" stuff, like Backspace, Return or period. If I want to type real fast, I actually tend to stick to the left hand only - my coordination isn't the best. I can hit almost 100 wpm like that in a synthetic benchmark (read: some boring test sentence), but I think my average is more like 50..60 wpm.
And I thought I was weird.
For me as a lefty, that's actually quite practical. My "left-hand zone" extends pretty far to the right, certainly up to the P-L-M line (no touch typist, obviously). The right hand is mainly for the "commandy" stuff, like Backspace, Return or period. If I want to type real fast, I actually tend to stick to the left hand only - my coordination isn't the best. I can hit almost 100 wpm like that in a synthetic benchmark (read: some boring test sentence), but I think my average is more like 50..60 wpm.
Lol how u can type 50-60 even 100 wpm with one hand?
So, do any of you feel that you type faster on a certain keyboard that you own?
For example, I feel fastest on my Model F.
So, do any of you feel that you type faster on a certain keyboard that you own?
For example, I feel fastest on my Model F.
I average around 120 WPM on all the keyboards I consider decent for typing. An old IBM rubber dome one I like, an MS Ergo Elite, and, most recently, a Dell SK-1000.
I also have a Razer Tarantula on which I can type around 70 WPM.
I feel fastest on MX blues. I actually slow down a bit on Ms but the improved accuracy is well worth it.
It also depends on what you use to test
Mine has fluxuated from 115 wpm on typeracer (http://play.typeracer.com/), to 105wpm on fast-fingers (http://speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com/)
This is weird. Typeracer has caps and punctuations, on the other hand, fast-fingers without caps and punctuations should be much easier. Or maybe full-texts line is much better than a single line.
If I understand correctly, fastfingers does not have
5 characters / Minute = 1 WPM
Meaning, its not really a fair measure of typing speed.
On type-racer I get about 60-70 on average. Have to try it with my Filco next.
Iggysaps, you list the G84 in your sig as having Cherry blacks. In actuality, it has Cherry MLs which only come in one variety (AFAIK).
Unless... you modded it somehow, and in that case, I apologize.
I am a very heavy typist so I can see why I feel more natural on it.
this goes to my notion that there are 'classes' of typists and some will always like the heavier ('meatier') switches and some will always like the lighter switches. I'm a relatively heavy typer too, and I really tried to like lighter switches (especially since some of those boards are so pretty!) but I always came back to buckling springs in the end.
I think for a given type of typist its hard to switch board genres abruptly, in either direction. Light typists will always prefer a relatively light switch, and vice versa for heavy typists.
For a while I even tried swapping between a light and a heavy board, but even that didnt last. Its like right-handedness and left-handedness, eventually you pick a side and go with it ;)
I thought I was fastest on cherry blues too, but since getting this IBM M yesterday, my speed has improved more than 15 wpm, just in one day!!!! I can't wait to see what will happen once I actually get used to the 'board. I am a very heavy typist so I can see why I feel more natural on it. I'm around 95 wpm on fast fingers but as low as 70 on typefaster lessons. Those are ridiculous words anyway though lol so of course it's going to be less.
Oh yeah, I know fast fingers is f'd, I just look at the characters per minute and divide by 5. Typefaster does the same thing(it gives me usually around 40-50 wpm) as it only takes the actual words that you typed out for that lesson. But they are strange words which slows me down since I don't have muscle memory for those specific words since most of them I've never even heard of lol. I always look at cpm rather than what it tells you as wpm since it usually is f'd up anyway.
@wellington:
I think a lot of it has to do with the other things that you do with your fingers as well. Many people who type on keyboards(pretty much everyone on earth now) doesn't do much else that really stresses your fingers. Do you play any musical instruments? I play paino guitar and flute so my fingers are used to lots of repetitious movement which might explain why I like the heavier keyboards more. Same probably goes for everyone else, or something similar to that.
Just tested it:
Rindfleischetikettierungsüberwachungsaufgabenübertragungsgesetz
Word typed in 8688 ms. That makes 137 ms/char and 435 cpm
-huha
edit: weird. I didn't put a space in the word. Does the board software insert spaces for character breaking purposes? A zero-width space would be much less irritating.
I was basically forced to learn to touch-type in Middle School, so I'm actually kind of glad after the fact. I'm not as fast, or in most cases, as accurate as I'd like to be, but hopefully, I'm getting better.
I need a low profile mechanical board:D is there any?
I guess my problem with such a method is that I don't like a low-profile switch as much as the full-profile switches.
I'd guess that there is some sort of inverse relationship between the feedback of a switch and the maximum possible speed, this explains the faster feel of my AT101W over my Model F, but the better feel of the Model F.
I need a low profile mechanical board:D is there any?
No fast typists use mechanical boards, they are mostly on IBM laptop(scissor) from what I see on youtube. I need a low profile mechanical board:D is there any? When I'm trying to switch my fingers as fast as while I'm on a low profile rubber dome board, the fingers get stuck as if there's a wall blocking the way.
"It's nice...feels like a Remington". I'm assuming that's a typewriter or something
How a Topre switch could feel like a manual typewriter must be like how a Model M supposedly feels like a Selectric...not much at all...
This is just conjecture, though.
Manual typewriters make the Model M seem like a feather-weight touch.
It's nice...feels like a Remington". I'm assuming that's a typewriter or something
It coulda been this:Show Image(http://readcoco.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/typewriter-retro1.jpg)
Or it coulda been an electric shaver.Show Image(http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/images/beard.JPG)
Keyboards with Cherry ML switches. Any of the Cherry G84-XXXX models will get you there. I believe the Cherry G84-5200 is a fullsize 'board with MLs. The G84-4100 (ML4100) is a popular 'board, too, as it has a compact layout.
The Cherry / Raptor K1 (http://www.raptor-gaming.de/raptor/raptorUK/Produkte/k1.htm) sounds interesting. Seems to have MX switches with 30% less travel.
I'm fastest (that is, burst speed) on my Thinkpad with scissor switches as well. I think it all depends on what you want to achieve; just type fast for the sake of typing fast? Get a keyboard with uniform feel, somewhat short travel and okay feedback, like a Thinkpad's scissor-switch keyboard. If, however, you can accept typing a little slower, get a keyboard you like the feel of. I can't type extremely fast on my Endurapro, but as it does feel incredibly nice, it's not as tiring and much more inspiring and I'm still quite fast with it. A keyboard is, after all, just a tool. Depending on what you want to do, there's the right tool for every job. I can be creative when typing on good keyboards; it feels nice, so I can divert more brainpower to actually thinking and the sound of typing on a nice, clicky keyboard is somewhat soothing as well.
I wouldn't go for the "fastest" switches unless your job is to type as fast as possible. If you've achieved a certain typing speed, you're limited by how fast you can come up with things to type anyway. This barrier is much, much lower than what you can type; I think I might manage to do 60 to 80 wpm when coming up with texts; it doesn't really matter if I can do 120 on my Thinkpad vs. 100 on the Endurapro, because typing speed is not the limiting factor. That's why I tend to like typing on the Endurapro or the G80-3000 with blues, for that matter.
-huha
Best I've gotten so far on a typing test is 68 wpm with 98% accuracy. I need a taller desk that I can rest my forearms on whilst typing.
Yeah, I've noticed that helps IMMENSELY! It's not a good idea to anchor your wrists, as this will limit your movement, and thus kill your speed, but if you can anchor your forearms and keep everything else up in the air, I've found that is the best way to go.
And just keep working on it, you'll get there, all it takes is practice. Also, speed comes from certainty, so I've noticed the thing that helps my speed the most is if I do some typing lessons(yes even the very simple ones) at a place like typing-lessons.org and just do all of the basic ones over and over, only going on to the next one when you have finished the last with 100% accuracy, no matter how slowly you have to go. Since I've started doing that on a regular basis, my typing speed has improved a very noticeable amount.
I've gotten up to ~70WPM after playing some random "press the correct letter" sort of typing games.
As much as those sort of exercises may help, I can't help but dread the next "jfj fjf" typing instructor I see.
Just did 104wpm on this test. http://speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com (http://speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com)
This was done on a creaky Matias Optimizer keyboard that is starting to exhibit signs of wear and tear. I can't wait to try it again when my Filco arrives this week. It probably won't change too much, but I'll probably be wearing a big fat stupid grin from the new keyboard.
I cranked 120wpm with a 3% error rate around 15 years ago on an IBM Selectric Typewriter at a temporary job interview. I was usually the fastest typist at any temp assignment until I got paired with this one woman who was simply supersonic at 140+wpm!