Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Typing Speed

84 words


Speedtest

I'm often teased about typing. Comments generally cluster around the "is that keyboard smoking" variety. I contend I really don't type all that fast - it's more about how the keyboard sounds. And, of course, the corrections I automatically make sound exactly like things that don't need to be corrected.

Tonight I decided I'd just do an online typing test to see how fast I type. As I suspected, it's not spectacular. Apparently I type 84 words a minute, although I don't think this test deducted for errors. So, lop off a few points for that perhaps.

This is about double what it was when I took typing in high school. But, ergonomic computer keyboards allow much better typing speed than old manual, and even electric, typewriters. I'm also guessing that years of typing every day, sometimes for many hours a day, haven't hurt my typing speed at all either.

I write every single day - from articles to work to email to blogging to dozens of other things. I'm thinking that all helps my typing speed too.

I'm not sure what a "fast" typing speed is, but I'm guessing 84 words a minute isn't it.


2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You are way faster than me! I'm only 69. Mainly because I have such a habit of going back and fixing the mistakes as I go. LOL Good thing I'm not in a typing pool or something.

Patsy Terrell said...

Are there even typing pools anymore? :) I'm not sure anyone pays attention to typing speed anymore since I'm guessing being able to use various programs may be more important than speed. Plus, using things like stored documents you can just drop in makes it the equivelant of typing thousands of words a minute if you know how to use them. :)