Hahahahah, this is great.

You type 336 characters per minute
You have 58 correct words and
you have 6 wrong words

58 WPM

Typing was the best class I took in high school back in 1982. Back then I remember about 45 WPM was all I could get out but that was on the IBM Selectric. Computers have increased that I suppose. BTW, I’m able to use all my fingers and thumbs and not look at the keys. I’ve seen some people do the hunt and peck and it’s so painful to watch.

I may try this test again just to determine what my speed is over a number of trials.

Dang Kurt - you are quick.

I took it once and got 37 wpm…….however, I didn’t get any incorrect words, proving that I am accurate as well as anarchic. The best I have ever done on a test like this is 44 wpm. I am self-tought on keyboard (s), as well as guitar and bass too. Regardless, I try to copy-and-paste my way through emails, blogs, message boards, love letters, hate mail, etc.

I hit 45. I have a problem with this test: it’s just words without context. It’s much easier for me to type when I’m actually writing a sentence. Which is probably true for most. I learned to touch type in high school using manual royals that had blank keys. Yep, you couldn’t watch your hands, because the keys were just black.

I managed 49, with 1 wrong character. I tend to type slow and sloppy, because of the availability of spell-check and the simplicity of making corrections. I took “keyboarding” (they didn’t call it typing) in high school in Kansas City from a young black teacher , Percy Walker, who dressed like he’d just walked off a page of GQ Magazine. He was a great teacher and made the class really enjoyable. And until I got into college and grad school, I didn’t realize how really valuable “keyboarding” would be. I only do three things on a computer, and keyboarding is first on the list. Thanks, Percy!

I typed between 47 and 54. What slows me down is when the sentence ends and a new one starts, it starts the new sentence to slow. I could type faster on the old electric Selectric typewriters. You could maintain a rhythm you just can’t achieve on a laptop, today.

I got 49, with no errors, (hey, a typing test which lets you go back and correct, unlike the real world!) but I am lefthanded, and slightly finger-dyslexic– that crossover that makes you hit a k when you mean a d. I never learned how to type without reading… to this day, I know admin asst’s who can type an entire document, and not have a clue what they typed once they are done.

My first typewriter was a Remington manual portable when I was 13, (which I still have against the day the barbarians take over) because my handwriting was atrocious. I “sort of ” taught myself to three-finger touch type slowly…better than my dad, a confirmed hunt and peck artist — my mom had been a clerk-typist and she showed me where the fingers went. Like Kurt, I really learned in typing class in high school on manuals — only the business classes and typing II had electric models. Since then, I’ve typed on a Wang word processor the size of a travel fridge, a Smith Corona interchangeable key electric, a Brother word processor (you could put a whole 25 characters into its memory for correction before it typed it on paper) An IBM Executive D (electric, proportional spacing, 17″ platen for typing mimeograph and offset paper masters) a 70+ year old RC Allen upright (still have that one, too) and a wide variety of laptop and computer keyboards. I think I’m safe from phone texting– getting a touch typist to text is a bit of a learning curve, so I just use one finger at a time, especially since my cell is one of those “push three times for C” arrangements.

Turns out the two most valuable classes I took in high school were typing and Spanish. Drove Miss Redmond (typing teacher) nuts, because rather than type the exercises over and over and over (bored me to tears) I would make up and type lines to poems on the spot. Once she asked where my copy was, and I told her, “In my head.” I got a B anyway– not so much for that antic as the fact that though I could consistently type 35 wpm with no errors on a manual, I just couldn’t put on the speed. But that inability saved me from a career as a secretary or typist, so that’s OK by me.

You type 332 characters per minute
You have 64 correct words and
you have 2 wrong words

I’m 24, I grew up with computers. I just learned. Nothing formal.

First time taking it, 52 wpm, no mistakes. Not fast, but not slow either. Kind of like how I read. I’m no speed reader, but I’m no snail either… and my comprehension rate is quite high.

Anyhoo, I learned in 9th grade on a big bulky electric typewriter (I still shudder thinking about that teacher… “Come give me a hug for an ‘A’!!!!”), though I remained a hunt and peck kind of typist until college, where writing papers on computers got me nimbler. Then I started visiting message boards and blogs which picked up my speed even more, though my thought process slows it back down!!!

I typed 84wpm with 1 error. I didn’t care for this test, it was hard for me to focus on words that didn’t flow together in a sentence. I am normally in the 90-95wpm range. Oh well, not bad.

Aw JEEZ! Take me back to my worst class in high school. I got bumped off the honors list twice that year because my grade in typing was so godawful! I barely passed the course by finally achieving a “C” by the end of the year. (45 wpm with no more than three errors.) Of course, we were using manual typewriters where you had to pound each key with the force of a sledgehammer. Especially those old Underwoods!!! I didn’t do well on the test here (am embarassed to mention how bad) but I, too, found that I paused as each “page” popped up and that I was slowed down because the words weren’t in any kind of sentence order. I think I type a lot faster when I’m doing my own thing, like typing this. When I’m typing from hard copy, I tend to a)actually read and try to comprehend what I’m typing, and b)squint like hell to see the words because my eyesight isn’t what it used to be (not that it ever was that good!) Fun topic though, Kurt!