Words per minute
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Words per minute
Where can I find a test on how many words per minutes I can type?
My co-workers are over here slack jawed at the quick, and loud clatter coming from my keyboard.
I did a search and it came up unconclusive.
My co-workers are over here slack jawed at the quick, and loud clatter coming from my keyboard.
I did a search and it came up unconclusive.
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Uhm..get a clock with a second counter on it. Then, get some text that is moderate in its intensity. Like, what I have been typing would be a moderate difficulty type. Uses both hands, up and down, some letters coming from the same hand in a row, etc. Just start typing from that text in Word or something for a minute, and then count your words. Don't use the delete key, and go through your words. If you typed 100 words, but had 18 errors then you failed. Go for having 90% accuracy, I believe that's what I used in school..had to be 90% or better to have it count.
I personally back in tenth grade at the end of my "keyboarding" class was typing at 110 WPM with <1% error. Hauling ***. As for clattering keyboard, it all depends on the board. My PC keyboard upstairs makes an aweful racket when I type. But this Apple here is quiet - it doesn't have a nice deep 'stroke' like my one upstairs, which bugs me a bit...
I personally back in tenth grade at the end of my "keyboarding" class was typing at 110 WPM with <1% error. Hauling ***. As for clattering keyboard, it all depends on the board. My PC keyboard upstairs makes an aweful racket when I type. But this Apple here is quiet - it doesn't have a nice deep 'stroke' like my one upstairs, which bugs me a bit...
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Originally Posted by Jimmy Dean
60 wpm with 8 errors. and the fact that I am having to read off of somehting I have to type instead of thinking from my head slows me down ALOT.
My actual typing speed is probably around 120WPM, but half of my keystrokes are usually backspace....
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Keyboard Trainer will do it
Me, I type right at 2 to 4 words per minute, which is just above my thinking
Which is at 1.5 words per minute, they say things slow down as you go up in age.
Me, I type right at 2 to 4 words per minute, which is just above my thinking
Which is at 1.5 words per minute, they say things slow down as you go up in age.
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Woo hoo!! I can type at a rate of 345 keystrokes per minute! ... but that is on the number keypad! My actual speed for normal typing is 80 wpm, according to the test suggested by acerockola.
I used to do the one-finger peck on the keyboard until 10th grade, when we started having about four pages a night of typed homework for English class. That's when I really learned, and now two years later I'm pretty fast.
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My actual speed for normal typing is 80 wpm, according to the test suggested by acerockola.I used to do the one-finger peck on the keyboard until 10th grade, when we started having about four pages a night of typed homework for English class. That's when I really learned, and now two years later I'm pretty fast.
Ryan
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I bought a program called Mavis Beacon's Typing Tool or something to that effect. It gives you lessons, teaches you where to put your fingers, quizzes you, etc. That and writing about four pages of homework a night for one class for a year really helped me learn! 
Ryan
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I also found out that if it something I have memorized or and thinking up at the time I can type upwards of 80 wpm and somethimes get as few as 3-5 mistakes I dont catch, that 80 wpm is counting in the mistakes I do catch and backspace to fix.
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