How fast can you type?
 

I just took an online typing test and was surprised how slow I actually am. I really didn't understand the test results and they were given back in "gross WPM" and net WPM. Well, I can type around 30 WPM, but the net was really docked for redos or something. It was like 7. I know I type much faster than that. I can't actually figure out the thing since they say a 'word' is five letters and a space. Does that mean a ten letter word counts for 2?

I just took an online typing test and was surprised how slow I actually am. I really didn't understand the results and they were given in.....

I just retyped my own words and that was as far as I got in 60 seconds. Man, you would think that with 15,000 posts, I could do better than that.

pretty damn fast

I'm good for about 85-90 wpm. I just went to www.typingtest.com and did 2 minutes, and got 97 wpm but my accuracy was only 86%.

I couldn't get that site to give back results. I didn't see where to signal you were done. Are you supposed to hit enter at the end of their lines? I didn't thinking of how a normal keyboard/ computer works.

My wife can type like a machine, 70 wpm.
Smoke come off the keyboard.

Milt, i think you just type the paragraph and hit enter between paragraphs. When the time is up, it will stop by itself.

2 minutes, gross 57, net 54. I use the Dvorak keyboard layout, and this keyboard.
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I am pretty fast. My generation used AOL AIM to learn how to type.

I can type the code as fast as my brain allows it to form properly...

Right, just start typing, only hit enter at the paragraph end, and eventually it stops and you get a score.

61 WPM, 98% accuracy, and I type with only my left index, left thumb, right middle, right index and right thumb. Take that, QWERTY!!

do you have the rest of your fingers?

So far Gogar is the best secretary of the bunch. Must have been a court stenographer in a past life.

60/3

Or a future life . . .

I think im a fast typer cause I play piano for my dinner.

42wpm 91%

Yep, just a misfit I guess SmileWavy

Last time I checked it was 85 or 90. When I started really typing fast was when I finally could keep my eyes off the keyboard and on what was coming on the screen.

75/62/90% - I so rely on automatic spellchecking so at some point my fingers seem to move on to the next word....

People sometimes poke their heads into my office to see who is typing so fast. I'm pretty darned fast.