EPTHow fast do you type / how do you type? - Page 4
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Enderbantoo
United States465 Posts
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ArmOfDeath
United States30 Posts
On April 06 2010 06:26 Chromyne wrote: Assuming what your link says is true, the typist maintained that speed for 50 minutes, which is quite a feat. I've hit 160+ wpm once on a very simple passage but average 110-120 wpm. If you wiki the typing championships, Sean Wrona is one of the fastest, and you can find his top scores on typeracer. (I think he averages 200+ wpm. Remember that passages are reused and can become familiarized with. He didn't hit this speed in the competition of course.) That's nice, but he's doing his typing with burst, and memorization. If you want that, I can burst with the best of them at over 250 WPM. That isn't actually typing though, that's just typing 5 words as fast as you can. The point I'm trying to make is just because you can type a sentence or two in quick succession doesn't mean that you actually type at 100+ WPM. It means that you can do a quick burst of words quickly. If you really want to test and see how fast you can type, then you have to be typing continuously for 5+ minutes at a time. | ||
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Ilikestarcraft
Korea (South)17741 Posts
You have 73 correct words and you have 5 wrong words | ||
BroOd
Austin10833 Posts
note that these was my first typing in the last few YEARS..... and i started reading comments about how people thought I would never get past 50 wpm ROFL!!!! after those 10 sentences i started to get the hang of things again, and im IMPROVING every word i type.... I'm 160 wpm in my last 16 sentences, these phrases and sentences are honestly no challenge................ most of my paragraphs with them are under 20 seconds because they are so bad with basic syntax/run-on skills. keep in mind this is just my FIRST NIGHT back, my hands still feel like rocks compared to what they used to feel like, I'm sure I wont regain everything until at least a few weeks of typing... but when you easily get to 160wpm on my first night typing in 3 years has the competition really improved all that much? in a few days Ill be 240wpm.... BroOd on teamliquid... | ||
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niteReloaded
Croatia5282 Posts
On April 06 2010 06:42 psychopat wrote: Depending on the online test, I tend to vary between 130 and 150 with no typos if I'm actually trying. When I'm posting on a message board, I'm probably more like 120. I remember back in 9th grade, the typing teacher kept giving me bad grades because I wasn't using the proper homerow typing method, to the point of almost failing. I wound up complaining and got my 99 after proving that I could type pretty much twice as fast as she could and with less errors. Isn't that the whole point of typing anyway? I don't even use all of my fingers. if you listened to your teacher, you could've been even faster. | ||
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Motiva
United States1774 Posts
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EGMachine
United States1643 Posts
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Zoler
Sweden6339 Posts
On April 06 2010 07:08 Machine[USA] wrote: I type like a retarded gorilla, my hands kinda just run around the keyboard wherever they are needed in no particular order. Another thing that i get alot of crap about is the fact that i use my left thumb to hit control key for hotkeying units "LOL". I use pinky for ctrl, feels more natural. lol thumbs, that is really gorilla like actullay | ||
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SichuanPanda
Canada1542 Posts
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JeeJee
Canada5652 Posts
apparently i was 140+ there i don't really bother with technique or anything, in fact i have filmed myself typing just for the lulz, and it looks so freaking random haha.. i don't really use my right pinky for example for anything apart from the apostrophe, and all the keys in the centre like tgbyhn are any hand's game, depending on what my hand is typing. for instance when i type be, i use my right index for 'b' but when i type 'but' i use my left index for 'b'. dunno, it just feels comfortable, and at 140+wpm with basically no errors, who cares? | ||
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psychopat
Canada417 Posts
On April 06 2010 06:54 niteReloaded wrote: if you listened to your teacher, you could've been even faster. I don't deny that, but it would have required to "unlearn" a lot of habits that I built through from playing MUDs back when I was a kid. I wasn't, and still am not, willing to drop by a good 50+ wpm in order to relearn the proper way. The huge short-term hit isn't worth the long-term gain that would probably be relatively small anyway. On April 06 2010 06:00 Inori wrote: I'd really like to see people who say they do 120+ wpm post screenshots from some site like above. Myself, 90-100 at peak and 60-80 casually. Just tried a race on typeracer... 126wpm, 100% accuracy. Seems like they're a bit more strict than other sites I've tried it on, or I might just be out of practice. I dislike how typeracer docks you accuracy points even if you go back and correct your mistake. It's essentially penalizing you twice since you're losing time to fix it. edit: lol at David Kim being 9th on my screenshot... | ||
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mgj
191 Posts
On April 06 2010 04:04 Day[9] wrote: I type about 230 or 240 WPM. If I'm trying to fix the thousands of typos I make, probably around 70WPM. I love you more than life itself, but no, you do not type about 230 wpm. We really need some sort of unified test. Edit: Forgot my stats -.- Last time i did the "fast fingers" test i think i got ~ 500 cpm / 100 wpm | ||
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jgju
United States454 Posts
I had perfect form before >_< I only type about 75 wpm, but I'm very accurate | ||
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mgj
191 Posts
I can type "asd asd asd sad sad" very very fast, but yeah.... | ||
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Grobyc
Canada18410 Posts
Pretty much learned it that way as OP described by playing so much SC and typing on b.net hahaha. WPM is around 90-95 I think, but haven't really tested lately. | ||
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RushWifDietCoke
United States488 Posts
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Wr3k
Canada2533 Posts
On April 06 2010 04:31 JoeSaddles wrote: thats definitely weird.. I'm sort of similar with my right hand, I only use index and middle finger with my right, also my pinkies I use for enter, shift, ctrl etc like I think most ppl do I type the same way. three fingers on my left hand + pinky for ctrl/shift/tab. Then on my right hand I ondly use two fingers/thumb, pinky for enter, ring finger for backspace lol. I can type 80-100 wpm somehow though. | ||
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bdams19
United States1316 Posts
On April 06 2010 05:54 neobowman wrote: I think some people are exaggerating their typing skills. Seriously. Here's a site to test. ![[image loading]](http://i263.photobucket.com/albums/ii129/neoalbert/Untitled-3.jpg) Edit: I never bothered learning "proper" typing. I just do whatever I feel like. Space usually goes to my thumbs, everything else depends on where my hands are at that point. i dont really like this site... it only lets you see 2 lines at a time so i have to slow down right before it moves... here's mine: ![[image loading]](http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y26/bdams19/Untitled-16.jpg) | ||
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TwilightStar
United States649 Posts
On April 06 2010 08:32 bdams19 wrote: i dont really like this site... it only lets you see 2 lines at a time I've been using this site for awhile, when I'm at school and bored... I average at around 115-120 WPM, usually no more than that.. On April 06 2010 07:08 Machine[USA] wrote: I type like a retarded gorilla, my hands kinda just run around the keyboard wherever they are needed in no particular order. Another thing that i get alot of crap about is the fact that i use my left thumb to hit control key for hotkeying units "LOL". This is funny, because I used to do the same thing... Until I cut my thumb open while cutting some cheddar cheese -_- So I started using my pinky  | ||
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synapse
China13814 Posts
apparently most people use left thumb for spacebar or something, i use right ~ | ||
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