Typing Speed vs Switch

[Linkbane]

So, just a little compilation thread I wanted to make to see the highest speeds that people have achieved with their switches.

For instance, I have a top of 133 on Reds and rubber domes, 135 on Greens, and 140 on Blues. Also, if you use a special sort of configuration (like flipped spacebar, an Ergodox or Kinesis, or something like that).

Pretty much I just wanted to see how fast GH typists were. 

[SpAmRaY]

I get 60-70 no matter the switch type.

[davkol]

75+ wpm on TypeMatrix 2030 without the skin; scissor switches
70+ wpm on any other keyboard I'm familiar with; this includes scissor switches, ordinary rubber domes, Cherry MX Red and others

For me, it's too early to judge the ErgoDox (with MX Clears as of now).

[pixel5]

85 on blues
90-93 on reds

[Puddsy]

I type fastest on reds/blacks (about 70 WPM), and then a bit slower on browns (60 WPM), and slowest on blues (50 WPM, but 100% accurate).

[Altis]

85-95 on Blues.
90-100 on Reds/browns, but 1-4% errors at 100.
115 consistence on Apple aluminum BT, <1% errors.

Oddly enough, inversely proportional to the amount of noise I'm making!

[Linkbane]

I theorize that at a certain point typing becomes about the brain's ability to process words and only 5-10% on the switch; perhaps the tactility to me is only helpful as a reminder (because I don't think about my fingers) while to most people it is a slight hindrance. I wonder if any 110+ typists use Blacks, Greens, or heavy switches like that?

[wicked1]

90wpm on MX browns
85wpm with clears.
But, I did that test the day I got the keyboard w/ the clears...  maybe I should retest w/ both keyboards.

I get about 83 wpm consistently on any keyboard.. that's basically my typing baseline any time test it w/out trying or practice.  I don't type for a living...  (basically a sysop, so I type, but not constantly)

[terran5992]

One of my friends can get 80wpm on a rubber dome

Imagine if he had a mechanical keyboard

[astrimbu]

I had an average of 106 wpm with standard layout rubber domes. I just got a KBT Pure Pro with brown switches, and my average is probably about 95 wpm. This is mainly due to my unfamiliarity with the layout (the backspace is small).

Other than the layout hindering my wpm, I find that I accidentally type wrong letters with my brown switches because they are so light. I am a fairly heavy handed typist though.

[Jack]

http://data.typeracer.com/pit/profile?user=vonunov

Those last ten races were on Topres. I'll pick an English competition on 10fastfingers.com and do it with Topres, blacks, and blues to compare on equal ground. I'm not used to the blues so who knows what'll happen though.

Topres: 157 WPM, no errors.

Blacks: 153 WPM, one word wrong (5 erroneous keystrokes out of 771).

Blues: 156 WPM, one word wrong (6 erroneous keystrokes out of 786).

So it looks like pretty consistent results, with some stumbling on the blacks and blues as I'm more used to the Topres. Those are all first-try results for each keyboard; I resisted the temptation to redo the tests until they looked good.

My favorite of all time is still buckling springs. I got that 200 WPM on Typeracer on a 1391401. It was like two lines of text, granted, but it's still my fastest recorded speed.

I just remembered I put the black/firm o-rings on the MX Blacks board. Not sure how it would differ but I'm not keen on taking them off just at the moment. It's still a pretty hard landing and I have to "bottom out" to be sure, so it's tiring. Double-taps are especially easy to screw up.

[Linkbane]

http://data.typeracer.com/pit/profile?user=vonunov

Those last ten races were on Topres. I'll pick an English competition on 10fastfingers.com and do it with Topres, blacks, and blues to compare on equal ground. I'm not used to the blues so who knows what'll happen though.

Yes, another Dvorak user, and one faster to boot! What more could I want?
How long have you typed? I am quite curious.

@terran5992 I type 120's on RD also. I bet he could get in the nineties pretty easily with a good mechanical switch that he likes, though.

[terran5992]

0.o I wanna see a video of some one typing 200wpm

[Jack]

Yes, another Dvorak user, and one faster to boot! What more could I want?
How long have you typed? I am quite curious.

About five or six years, I think it is now. Looks like there's still some time within those seven (or ten?) years people say it takes to be an expert at something.

0.o I wanna see a video of some one typing 200wpm

http://www.youtube.com/arenasnow

[bubchi89]

0.o I wanna see a video of some one typing 200wpm

People type faster than you think. I'm pretty sure the fastest typer on these boards isn't even in the 99th percentile. Here's wikipedia's entry on some WRs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typing#Alphanumeric_entry

Shout out to hi-games.net! I remember when the creator of that site asked me to test his java typing test something like 6 years ago... on a speed cubing chat widget. haha. I didn't even know they had 50 minute typing tests, but I would never want to take that. I think the 150 wpm on a typewriter is way more legit though. If you can type that fast for 50 minutes you have the manliest fingers (and forearms) period. still, sean wrona is a beast. I remember a~4 years ago he was barely faster than me on hi-games.net. Then a year later he was 30 wpm faster than me on the 1 min typing test. Then a year later he broke 200 wpm and I was like "wut". I've tried practicing in the past but have never been able to keep interest longer than 2 or 3 days.

FWIW, I do not type faster on this brown WASD v1 than I do on laptop keyboards (both the 8540p and the t61p which have decent laptop keyboards as far as laptop keyboards go). Well, at least not noticeably. If I am faster then it either increased my "top speed" (which I doubt I've even approached) or it increased my current speed by <5 wpm.

[Linkbane]

About five or six years, I think it is now. Looks like there's still some time within those seven (or ten?) years people say it takes to be an expert at something.

Ah, wow. I have typed Dvorak for about nine months now, and hopefully by the time I've typed for that long I shall catch up to you!

[Niomosy]

I've only really tried on rubber domes and buckling switches.  I'm about the same on both, topping out at about 90.  I should pull out the Granite and see how I do on Alps tomorrow.

[Reomero]

After getting my first mechanical keyboard my speed dropped by about 10WPM since it had a Black switch which is considerably heavier than the usual rubber-dome 'board I'd been using.

Nowadays, my typing speed is fairly consistent across all the switches I've tried (Black, Brown, Red, Blue, Green, Clear, BS). My speed is generally 85-100WPM in the real world, though I do get 110-120 on some of them typing sites/races/apps/whatever - highest ever being 130WPM.

[Tony]

Avg speed: 75wpm, max ~90 wpm.

[terran5992]

Yes, another Dvorak user, and one faster to boot! What more could I want?
How long have you typed? I am quite curious.

About five or six years, I think it is now. Looks like there's still some time within those seven (or ten?) years people say it takes to be an expert at something.

0.o I wanna see a video of some one typing 200wpm

http://www.youtube.com/arenasnow

Thanks but i was really hoping to see someone going ape**** on his keyboard

[Niomosy]

Pulled out the SGI Granite and did 95wpm, 98.1% accuracy.  That's my best wpm so far.  All in all, not too bad.  Bit heavy a switch for me but for some speed tests it wasn't too bad.

[slashbreak]

still on a Logitech 660 rubberdome for now, and just started learning Colemak this week. I'm almost at 40wpm @98% accuracy

[Austin Powers]

122wpm highest on my membrane because of the flatness on the keyboard(slightly higher than chiclet of course)+slope wristpad built in.
91 for Blue switch ninja filco without wristpad and it's freaking tired due to the thickness under my wrist. Maybe today I try to break it because I just started using them few weeks. Might consider getting a wristpad soon

[abdulmuhsee]

80-90 on Black ALPS
80-90 on rubber domes

[AKIMbO]

I hover around the 100wpm mark +/- 10 words on all of my boards.  I'm fastest with my hhkb though (I attribute this to the excellent position of the backspace key on hhkbs).

[Linkbane]

0.o I wanna see a video of some one typing 200wpm

People type faster than you think. I'm pretty sure the fastest typer on these boards isn't even in the 99th percentile. Here's wikipedia's entry on some WRs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typing#Alphanumeric_entry

Shout out to hi-games.net! I remember when the creator of that site asked me to test his java typing test something like 6 years ago... on a speed cubing chat widget. haha. I didn't even know they had 50 minute typing tests, but I would never want to take that. I think the 150 wpm on a typewriter is way more legit though. If you can type that fast for 50 minutes you have the manliest fingers (and forearms) period. still, sean wrona is a beast. I remember a~4 years ago he was barely faster than me on hi-games.net. Then a year later he was 30 wpm faster than me on the 1 min typing test. Then a year later he broke 200 wpm and I was like "wut". I've tried practicing in the past but have never been able to keep interest longer than 2 or 3 days.

FWIW, I do not type faster on this brown WASD v1 than I do on laptop keyboards (both the 8540p and the t61p which have decent laptop keyboards as far as laptop keyboards go). Well, at least not noticeably. If I am faster then it either increased my "top speed" (which I doubt I've even approached) or it increased my current speed by <5 wpm.

Also, I guarantee that this is incorrect. Based on many studies from the mid 2000's, 99% is hardly 100. I think that you are sadly misinformed. I'm quite sure that if you took Americans, which would probably be a rather typing-heavy population, the 99% would be around 90. If you believe that more than one in a hundred people, given that people rarely practice, can type over 100 wpm, I would challenge you. If you said that they could type over 130, I would close the padded door behind me.

[___q]

I type between 80 and 90 wpm normally, depending on the day, but when really concentrating and practicing a bit I can push to 120 or so, but it is not fun.

I've used a lot of different switches, and never noticed a significant difference in speed between them.  Blacks "feel" the snappiest to me (I am a fairly heavy typer), but the numbers stay the same.

[goobus]

Peak:
133 on reds
128 on topre variable
127 on browns
125 on topre uniform 45g (small sample)
125 on MacBook scissor switch (small sample)

Haven't tried blues or blacks yet

EDIT: I use qwerty ANSI layout and have a bad habit from gaming where I don't use pinky on my right hand trying to fix that

[Neo.X]

75-80 on all kinds of switches I have. I don't have time to practice.  Sometimes I think it's kind of waste for owning many keyboards. 

[czarek]

My speeds after using the switch for a longer time (at least 2 weeks):
100-105 on MX Blue (current daily driver)
95-100 on Buckling Spring (my all time favourite, can't use it anymore because it makes my fingers tired too quickly)
90-95 on MX Brown (I don't have any brown board any more, but that was my speed when I had it)
85-95 on Topre (HHKB and Uniform 45G RF)
65-105 on MX Red (I can burst to my top speeds on reds, but I also make a lot of mistakes which drop the overall speed usually)

[dgreekstallion]

I average 100 WPM on my IBM Model F.

[Linkbane]

@dgreekstallion
I've heard that the Model F is superior to the M in feel, I'm still looking forward to trying that. Perhaps with a Model M my typing speed will be benefited further.
However, I think that being light-fingered helps. Physically speaking, requiring greater force can sometimes make the fingers go where they are not supposed to, and it takes a greater amount of focus to type a key, making the rolling or bouncing over many keys near-simultaneously difficult.

Colemak users: they see me rolling...
Dvorak users: blackburn.mp4
Qwerty users: *unable to type due to CT*

[baotung]

I think that I naturally type fastest on browns and blues. Blues are easy to type on because your finger feel every single click but for some reason, browns seem to be the fastest. Something about the combination of the lightness and the barely noticeable but sufficient tactile feel.

[czarek]

Yes Model F feels nicer to Model M, it's a bit lighter and springier, but just as tactile - it's amazing feeling.
I don't like Model F keyboards for their layout though and can't use them daily. That is also the case of AT Model F and the Model F Terminal.

[Fragil1ty]

My averages are as follows:

Red: 115-125wpm.
Blues: 120-135wpm.
Blacks: .. I hate blacks. 100-110.

Apple wireless/wired keyboard bt: 115.