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!

You type 455 characters per minute
You have 82 correct words and
you have 5 wrong words

Eek! 5 wrong words?!
I must say that it was usually the first word in the series as it was taking the computer a bit too long (for my taste) to change screens. Then again, have I ever typed a comment here without a typo?

Thanks, Kurt, for the site. I will test myself off and on for the rest of the day.

39 wpm, no wrong ones.

I never took a typing class -ever. I learned simply by sitting down at a keyboard and hunting for the key I wanted, then pecking it with one of my index fingers. Of course, over the years of dealing with computers, I have gotten better – at least compared to where I started. Now I’m just happy I don’t have to look at the keyboard anymore!

I will encourage my children to take typing, just because keyboards are so prevalent in today’s world. But I will make it a point to tell them that how fast you type is not as important as what you type. Composition and clear thinking will get you father than fast fingers (unless you’re a data entry clerk).

I lose! I got 44 correct words and 5 wrong words. 44 words per minute. I’m impressed with myself because I had a stroke in August 2002 and couldn’t type a damn thing for quiet a while. I guess being bad is really getting better.

You type 351 characters per minute
You have 62 correct words and
you have 1 wrong words

I type 62 WPM

But then it took me 3 tries to get the Anti-Spam text right……go figure.

Took one class in high school…in ‘95, but then got my own computer and because addicted to the AOL Chatrooms…..dork…maybe…..but that helped the typing tremendously.

Hey, ya’ll! I just tried the test again. I got zero words right this time. I guess it would help if I took the caps lock off, huh? I didn’t realized I had the caps lock on until I got to “Indian” and by that time I was in the “oops” mode.

Did it one more time just to get an average, and scored 68 WPM this time. Anyone have a job opening for a master typist

Here’s an interesting (or maybe not) little aside. While my typing speed leaves something to be desired, I can fly on the number keys if that’s all the data I’m entering. That’s using only one instead of both hands, right? I also find that I can’t play musical instruments with any degree of co-ordination either. It’s almost as if the right side and the left side of my brain don’t communicate. Is this some form of dyslexia?

What a hoot! I typed a 56 with one word wrong. I was taught to type in 1970 by a nun who was once a sergeant in the Army, no less. She was a big as a brick house and you would of rather got hit by a semi than screw up in her class. My typing has slowed some but at least my pulse is at a normal rate. Funny, I still shake at the memory…….

Once I figured out how to do it — it’s not an intelligence test, after all — I got 99 words a minute. I took typing in summer school in junior high, back in the days when the teacher would shine a light on your homework to tell whether you were cheating and had used an eraser on your typewriter work. But I really got fast when I went to work at UPI during college and was punching the old yellow teletype tape. It went through the machines at a certain speed, and you had to be able to keep up at the other end.

#19,

Wow – that’s Fast!

Out of curiosity, where did you fall in the rankings? I would imagine you were in the top few percent.

49 WPM

Just curious…how many of you have been double-checking your posts for typos today, given the subject? I bet a lot lol.

You type 394 characters per minute
You have 75 correct words and
you have 0 wrong words

75 WPM

I can’t remember what I typed last time I had a test - probably 25 years ago. Good site to bookmark and see if I can improve.

Go Dale! Go Dale! Go Dale!

Oh my, I was a terrible typist when I was a teen…It didn’t take me long to figure out that I should become an executive and hire fast typists. . It worked for me.. I retired when I was 38. It took the typists a lot longer.. Try my method. It works.

I took the test four times. My best was 48 words with one mistake. My worst, 44 words with 3 mistakes. I learned from a little man named Ollie in Room 303 down on Oakland Avenue. If he saw these results he’d smack my knuckles with a ruler.

re (24) I thought you said you retired when you were 35……see - you can’t keep your lies straight.

Anyone going to the Cardinals game this weekend? You might see me in section 157 wearing an Obama shirt….

Yeah, I rok — er, make that rock!!!!!

Don’t remember exactly where I was in the rankings, but I think there were 33,000 or so who were better than I was. Hope their keyboards aren’t smoking.

You type 986 characters per minute
You have 126 correct words and
you have 4 wrong words

126 WPM

Am I good or what!

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Clever, Joseph! (Or, I maybe you’ve never “studied” keyboarding!)

I typed 20 words per minute with two fingers. Does that mean I get a 100 words per minute score since I’m competing against those using 10 digits? Just kidding of course.

you typed 106

0 errors

We have some whiz kids on here! Wow! You guys do rock!

Ryan on the E–Hey, I majored in typing in college, with a minor in underwater basket-weaving.

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Congrats Dale.I never took typing.

426 points, so you achieved position 14482 of 1576190 on the ranking list

You type 577 characters per minute
You have 109 correct words and
you have 3 wrong

#33: Suzyjax. Nice going. You must enjoy an interesting career. Did you receive any interesting -grad school offers? Maybe from Rankin, or perhaps from Ms. Hickey’s?

I find it interesting that this test “doesn’t count” mistakes against your word count.

That’s why I learned to type slowly but accurately. If I typed a zillion words a minute back in the day, and made a zillion minus 1 errors, that would have been a score of 1 word per minute.

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