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.