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[arethinn]

94 words

Touch typing free

Hey, so I'm not just blowing smoke when I say I type at least 80 wpm and can get up near 100 if I'm really on a roll. That test purposely uses shorter, more common words, which I type more rapidly than longer ones.

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[silussa.livejournal.com]

Most words in English tend to be on the short side, though; typing classes usually gauge words per minute based on a 5 letter word.

I point out in my own defense that I am a little rusty; haven't done that much major typing in a while.

80 words

Touch Typing for free

[talonstrike.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. I've been curious about my typing speed for some time, but too lazy to search for a typing test. I got 60 the first time, but was slowed by stumbling over the interface, so I tried again and got 72wpm. I find it interesting that I'm that fast (and relatively accurate) since I pretty much type with mostly just my index and middle fingers (and my thumbs for the space bar).

[jillypooh.livejournal.com]

Okay so I've been thinking for a while that I hate my keyboard and this confirms it. I have never been a fast typist but I only managed 32 words a minute. *headdesk* I have a mac so it's those smushed together keys. I have to look down at the keys regularly because they're placed funny. (Or that's my defense anyways *is sheepish*)

[arcanetrivia]

I agree with you that Mac keyboards can be a trip-up. The "touch" of the keys is important to my typing speed. That one was on my work keyboard, which I don't like -- I wonder if I could do better at home. I especially hate the keyboards they ship with the newer iMacs, which are very flat and the keys are almost like typing on, I dunno, a flat membrane type of thing, like the controls on a microwave. They are springy, so it's not quite that bad, but I find my fingers hitting one another or something because they don't press down into the keyboard very far.

[alces2.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Fun. I learned in Junior High. Started the semester with one finger in a splint and still was the fastest kid in the class by semester end. At that junior high they gave awards at the end of the school year for various classes. The typing teacher gave the award to a female student who was fast but still typed slightly slower than I typed. A friend asked the teacher why I didn't get the award. The teacher indicated she couldn't possibly give a typing award to a boy. It wouldn't be right. That was over 42 years ago. I was a bit slower tonight, only 100 wpm. I think starting piano lessons six years before I took the class helped.

[arethinn]

I learned in Junior High.

I took a typing class in junior high school too (although that was only about eighteen years ago for me). Actual typewriters and everything, still. I think I did well, but really it was getting into BBSing when I started high school that really built my typing speed.

[zilchmeister.livejournal.com]

I managed 68.

I wonder how we'd do with the Dvorak layout? :-D

[arethinn]

I'd do terrible, I'm sure. enotsola tried it for a while, and pried off and rearranged all the keys on his keyboard. He managed to pick up some speed again, I think, but it hurt his brain making all the new pathways or something, and eventually he went back to QWERTY out of what sounded basically like seasickness. ^_-