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How many words can you type per minute?

20

http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.php?

In three attempts, I managed to get 85,84, 84. Making my average 84! I typically got 1-3 mistakes though.

Does anyone know what the average typing speed is?

Reply 1

tomtheone

2

24wpm, hehehe 1 mistake

Reply 2

Platinum Mech

12

Making pains not to make a mistake, my own average was about 48. But what the hell -- surely it's the quality of your typing that matters, not the speed of it. :p:

Reply 3

lil one

2

My speed was 76wpm on my first try with 1 mistake :smile:

Reply 4

tomtheone

2

Just did it again 644 copy and paste rocks

Reply 5

67382

53, 1 mistake.

Reply 6

yorkshirelass

14

85 words per minute with 1 mistake (not spelling, but after using shift to capitalise the beginning of a sentence I didn't manage to take my finger off of the shift before the next letter).

Reply 7

Elitist

14

Without my mp3 player: 41 wpm 7 mistakes

With my mp3 player: 60 wpm 4 mistakes

:confused:

Reply 8

Jayk

1

This isn't a very good test really.....

Officially, I can type at 61 WPM, and that's inordinately fast. According to this I can do 90! Which just isn't true! :biggrin:

Reply 9

baby_emmy

15

97 with no mistakes... but i agree with Jayk Bakner i've done an offical test and got 76!!

-x-

Reply 10

Steezy20

1

46wpm with 3 mistakes.

I was going slow as I was trying to comprehend the story. Gibberish makes me type slowly.

Reply 11

Ghost

OP

20

Oh dear, I was going to write the result of that on my CV too! Heh. Any ideas where I can get an official test?

Reply 12

Ghost

OP

20

Hmm, just took a test on a different site (which claims to print out official certificates that employers use), and I got 85 wpm. Are you SURE that it isnt accurate? I dont want my employers to think im some sort of super human typer by giving them a very inaccurate figure..

Reply 13

generalebriety

16

Ghost

http://www.typeonline.co.uk/typingspeed.php?

In three attempts, I managed to get 85,84, 84. Making my average 85!

What?

Reply 14

Ghost

OP

20

*84. Correction has been made.

Reply 15

Jayk

1

Ghost

Hmm, just took a test on a different site (which claims to print out official certificates that employers use), and I got 85 wpm. Are you SURE that it isnt accurate? I dont want my employers to think im some sort of super human typer by giving them a very inaccurate figure..

Hrm...it depends.... you could indeed be a very fast typist :biggrin:

But then again, I do know that my official speed is indeed 61wpm - I have a certificate that I got from a touch-typing course I had to do in high-school - and that test said I could do 91....so unless I've actually managed to speed up my typing somewhat in the last 2 years...

Although it is possible that conventions have changed recently...

Reply 16

Ghost

OP

20

Heh, I really dont think I'm amazingly fast - I'd say I'm a little above average, that's all. Hmm.. I think I'll remove it from the CV until I can put in something accurate.

EDIT: This is the other site I tried: http://www.typingcertification.com/ . I got 87 wpm on it. Click "practice test" and just put in fake information in the form.

Reply 17

jdpworld

53 WPM.

No mistakes

Reply 18

Tabris

16

Your speed was: 76wpm.

Congratulations! You made no mistakes, practice does make perfect.

Copy and paste gave me a wpm of a few thousand :smile:

Edit: Your speed was: 11311wpm. Winrar.

Reply 19

Jayk

1

Ah-hah! I see why it's different!

typeonline.co.uk

What is WPM?

WPM is an abbreviation of Words-Per-Minute. Confusingly this does not literally mean whole words, as one might find in a dictionary, but rather word-units.

For speed to be comparable, it must be measured in standard units. In the case of typing speed if we used actual words for the WPM measurement then typing speed test results would not be comparable unless everyone used the same texts for their respective typing speed tests - which would give us the additional factor of memorisation so, the word-units we use are artificial.

One word-unit is five keystrokes. Thus, "typed" is one word-unit, "type on it" is two word-units (spaces count as keystrokes too).

I do believe that the course I took (that gave me 61WPM) did proper words, instead of word-units; hence why it's less! So yeah, the scores the originally mentioned test gave is accurate! :biggrin:

How many words can you type per minute?

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