How fast can you type?

[Knusper]

A bit embarrassed to say - considering I spend so much time on the computer, I hoped that even though I used 4 - 6 fingers I might have got better than I did.

 

[Tharwen]

I lost time on the astronaut test trying to work out where the hell you strange Americans hide your apostrophe on the keyboard.

Seriously, why do that? What good is it down there next to the shift key?

 

[chaosyoshimage]

43 words per minute apparently, but I could swore I typed faster than that, I think it's because I had to copy words from the screen as opposed to my head...

 

[R0cklobster]

I got 79 words, 428 characters with one wrong. It seems 79 is a common one for a lot of people.

 

[VincentR]

Sack of Cheese's Test: 103 words per minute. 576 characters per minute; 103 correct words, 4 wrong words. Position 555 of 57128 ranked people.

It's a pretty simple and nice test, but it's not perfect. Also, my stupid nails are too long right now; feel like they're definitely slowing me down.

Typing Program back in Jr. High (about ~7 years ago): ~120 wpm. Just comparing. That one used actual speeches/poems/essays at random. I recall the most common one that came up was the Gettysburg Address by Lincoln. "Four score..."

Goober's Typingtest.com thing: I chose 1 minute, English, astronaut test.
Results: 102 WPM with 511 chars in 1:00. 2 words error: corrected WPM of 100.

Still, I can type faster if I'm making shit up; and slower if I'm actually coming up with a paper or an essay. So this is not really a very useful number average aside from copying notes and such.

 

[onewheeled]

I type about 100 words per minute, usually. Not too shabby at all.

 

[ajemas]

I got 96 words per minute. Before you think that this is impressive, I only got that good at typing because my handwriting is so dreadful that I have to type everything up. I have actually had teachers demand that I type assignments because they couldn't make heads or tails of my writing.