How many words per minute can you type?

[enrich]

I did a test recently and I managed 22 words per minute although a few mistakes crept in. I could probably do 15-25 words per minute without making mistakes.
How many words can you do (without mistakes)?

[VinceNouvel]

depend on what I am writing.. I can write up to 60WPM when I am really motivated to write.. lol
only around 20 for normal rate.. such as posting in a forum :P

[BIG Mike]

As many as I need to...lol

Usually around 65 accurately...

[carik42]

Great question!

I don't know, but typing quick is one those skills you accidentally pick up in IM...or at least you should do.

I wonder if there's an online resource you can use to test...we could have a Warrior typing competition

[Jamie Iaconis]

Hi,

Last I was tested I can do approx. 40 words
per minute with 100% accuracy.

Not alot, but whatever! hehe!

I never claimed to be a typing genius/expert, haha!

Jamie

[Don Schenk]

I'm pretty accurate at 60-70 WPM, but if I try to take it up with gusts to 100 it begins towh ogh apald like thaid a.

Don

[valerieSONORA]

Last test I took was 75 wpm with 100% accuracy

[jestershaw]

Wow, I have to look at my fingers and I only use my pointing finger so about 4 words a minute. It took me half an hour to type this reply.

[SusanneUK]

Originally Posted by annoyedgirl

Last test I took was 75 wpm with 100% accuracy

I think I am about the same as you - however, I was formally taught to type - bless me - in 1976 (I was sweet 16, well , sweet ish) when dinosaurs still roamed LOL the last test I had was around 2001 I think and it was 75wpm with 100% accuracy, if memory serves me correctly..

what was the question? LOL

Sue

[Diana Lane]

Twenty five or so, mostly with my index finger plus my thumb and little finger for the 'shift' key. Still, until I wrote this I hadn't noticed that I now use my thumb and little finger, so I must be making progress. I'll be using four fingers this time next year

[jimmymc]

The typing is not the problem for me. I can easily out type my thinking... about twenty words per minute and I am 100% accurate after I hit spell check.

jimmymc

[C.B. Stewart]

typingtest.com puts me at around 110 to 115 words a minute with 97% accuracy.

I also type with four fingers -- I rarely ever use my pinkies.

When I'm writing a forum post or an e-mail, the only thing that slows me down is over-thinking my messages.

[Shannon Tani]

Last test I took told me 84 words per minute, which I was psyched about.

I really liked that particular test because it allowed me to hit the delete button to fix a mistake. Other tests want you to just keep going, which isn't the way that I type, so it slowed me down.

Love,
Shannon

[IMChick]

Thanks to MOM making me learn it!!

65-75 WPM with 99% accuracy, last test was a looong time ago. I took formal typing classes in high school when it wasn't "keyboarding 101" and it was awful and wasn't cool because I also learned the next session of dictaphone transcription--YUCK.

Net noodling and forum typing is substantially lower with lots of backspacing!

[Zach Booker]

About 70 words per minute...but i always get just a few mistakes
Zach

[Suthan M]

I can do writing pretty quick when i want to write stuffs.. but this days i rarely type long ebooks or articles.. Been putting Naturally Speaking at work for this tasks :-)

[dmorgan]

I took the test 5 times and here are the results...69, 69, 70, 69, 69 with about 99% accuracy. Not bad for a 40 year old guy...lol

[Scott Burton]

For me, assuming that I'm composing as I type, i.e. no real notes, it isn't already formulated, I run right about 40 words per minute as long as I have a modest grasp of the subject I'm writing on.

If I'm writing something that's been planned out already, the on-the-fly creation mechanism disengages and I can get to about 55 words per minute. This allows for about a 3% error rate and includes the time I use backing up and fixing said errors to put it at about 99.5% accuracy.

On the other hand, Dragon Naturally Speaking usually puts me at about 60-70 words per minute if I'm composing as I speak. Closer to 100 wpm if I already know what I'm wanting to put together rather than figuring it out as I go along.

With Dragon, though, I usually see about a 97% accuracy rate.

[coondog1y]

Usually about 80+ WPM.

I took a test once and it said 96 WPM. LMAO. That's crazy, but I had to really really concentrate.

I play piano too though so typing almost comes natural.

[Eric Johnson]

I can do 60 WPM with a good degree of accuracy.

[Jamie Iaconis]

Originally Posted by Scott Burton

For me, assuming that I'm composing as I type, i.e. no real notes, it isn't already formulated, I run right about 40 words per minute as long as I have a modest grasp of the subject I'm writing on.

If I'm writing something that's been planned out already, the on-the-fly creation mechanism disengages and I can get to about 55 words per minute. This allows for about a 3% error rate and includes the time I use backing up and fixing said errors to put it at about 99.5% accuracy.

On the other hand, Dragon Naturally Speaking usually puts me at about 60-70 words per minute if I'm composing as I speak. Closer to 100 wpm if I already know what I'm wanting to put together rather than figuring it out as I go along.

With Dragon, though, I usually see about a 97% accuracy rate.

You sure you fit everything in there bro...

JK, LOL!

Jamie

[mmurtha]

I type 87 words per minute acuratly.

I've tried to make 100 lol, but that is too fast for me.


Mary

[Ken Leatherman]

My age slows me down in the afternoon .....

Ken
The Old Geezer

[Suthan M]

Originally Posted by Ken Leatherman

My age slows me down in the afternoon .....

Ken
The Old Geezer

That is one scary ****.. lol .. good for a midnight laugh :-)

[cypherslock]

I can type 65 wpm with 99% accuracy....unless I'm drunk in which case its 50% accuracy. LOL

[latoya]

I just took a 3-min typing test at typingtest.com and got 86 words a minute with 93% accuracy.

[Steven Fullman]

Although I'd rather sweat one PERFECT word a minute, my 'bash it out speed' is no more than 60wpm.

Big Mike - you're a legend...since that means you're typing as fast as you can think...which is waaaay cool.

Steve

[Ephrils]

I tried a bunch of these tests back to back to get a good estimate. My speed came out between 40 and 55 WPM. These were with a couple of errors, but I'll go back and spell check it after most of the time or it will interrupt the flow my hands want to do while typing.

[Jill Carpenter]

Net Speed: 38 WPM
(words/minute)
Accuracy: 95%
Gross Speed: 40 WPM
(words/minute)

Just as I started that test a KNAT started flying around in front of my face (figures).

I've been thinking about getting macspeech.

[Shannon Herod]

Maybe 12 words per minute would be my guess. That is why I use Dragon Naturally Speaking.

Shannon

[Wakunahum]

I can type somewhere around 80, but obviously when writing it's much slower.

[Sarah Harvey]

40 words per minute. Nothing fancy. I spend my time reading more than typing.

[Michael Silvester]

You guys type really slow!

I can do 444 Words Per Minute, With 0% Accuracy.

Take Care,

Michael Silvester

[jjpmarketing]

If I am copying something... 40 WPM. If I am just typing like in this post... then I can get about 60 to 70 WPM... on a good day... but usually around 50 to 60 WPM is typical for me.

Those typing tests are ludicrous anyway. They always have you copying some crap using words that you probably rarely use... much less type. This makes it more difficult to score well on those tests, because your hands aren't used to hitting those keys on a regular basis.

If they scored based on just typing a post like this I would do quite well. I'm not a fast reader... so copying slows me down quite a bit. But the fact that I can type without looking at the keyboard helps somewhat.

[Estelle T. Dunomes]

When my fingers are cold, 12 words per minute or thereabouts (midwest weather thing). Fully warmed up 85 wpm accurately.

[TomBuford]

About 50 wpm. And that is because of my World of Warcrack addiction...lol. You have to learn to type fast when someone is swinging a sword at your head ;-)

[Jamie Iaconis]

Originally Posted by Michael Silvester

You guys type really slow!

I can do 444 Words Per Minute, With 0% Accuracy.

Take Care,

Michael Silvester

Ya me too, no kidding ay!

Nah... that was a good one Michael, HAHAHA!

[Ben Roy]

According to a random internet speed test, about 80 WPM. I feel pretty good about that I guess. I think I could go faster if I was typing my own content instead of copying a paragraph I'd never read before.

[AgileHosting]

About 70 wpm typing normal words... much, much slower typing server commands because a single little teeny tiny typo can be catastrophic.

I, too, thank heavens my Mom made me take typing!

Bailey

[tess47]

I average 85-90 WPM with no errors, and can do 100, though mistakes start creeping in when I get to that rate.

I've always loved typing (thank goodness) since I write so many articles. If I didn't type so fast, I guess I would have to outsource alot of my work because I usually write 6 to 8 articles per day, sometimes more.

I also love using a calculator. Maybe when I was a kid I was one of those who loved to play with buttons

[Samster]

If I am copying something I can type about 50 wpm with 100% accuracy. If I have to think and type I can spend a whole minute typing 50 words and then erasing them leaving me with 0 wpm.

[Money Grows Online]

You know it's funny. I quit "skool" (just kidding) in my sophomore year and yet I knew before I quit that I wanted to learn typing. You see I knew then at 15 years old that the computer age was just around the corner. I got a "D" in that class. Mrs. Leib was my teacher, man was she strict. However thanks to her and a lot of practice I can type about 35 words per minute. Still when I need something typed fast I have my beautiful 17 year old daughter do it. She types 70 words per minute. WOW!

PS I blazed my GED Test right after I quit. Just so you know I was making too much money to stay in school. REALLY!

[rocker123]

40 WPM and accurate

[Bev Clement]

last test was 125 wpm with 99% accuracy, but I did a touch typing course back in the 70's. Touch as in no letters were also shown on the typewriter.

[jbolte1976]

I can type forward at about 85 wpm and back space mistakes at about 75 wpm...so I guess net result is about 10 wpm

[Solidsnake]

Originally Posted by enrich

I did a test recently and I managed 22 words per minute although a few mistakes crept in. I could probably do 15-25 words per minute without making mistakes.
How many words can you do (without mistakes)?

Even if I force myself to place my fingers in their proper places in my keyboard, I always ended up frustrated. Thus, until now, I only use 3 fingers in both hands typing, giving me around 30wpm..... LOL... I cannot afford to sacrifice my time in learning correct way of typing...

Here is the fastest typist I noticed in this manual... Take a look at is typing speed..

YouTube - How to use SocialMarker

[Lloyd Buchinski]

Originally Posted by jbolte1976

I can type forward at about 85 wpm and back space mistakes at about 75 wpm...so I guess net result is about 10 wpm

And the guy is a whiz at math too. I did enjoy that.

For anyone that would like to get their typing speed up (without practice)
it goes up and the error rate drops as the room temperature increases.
That might be just a bit expensive this winter though.

[Stanley Tang]

The Facebook typing test puts me at 119 WPM, with an average of 110 over 100 tests. It's not surprising that I'm ranked 1st out of all my friends and ahead of 99% of the facebook population. (I might even be the fastest typer in the warrior forum)

[Christie Love]

I haven't taken a typing speed test in a long - long time, but I know that I type really - really fast. So fast, it makes people dizzy when they watch me.

[pavalakas]

I can do upto 30-35 words without mistake. How does it matter?