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On April 07 2010 00:48 Zack1900 wrote:I thought I was fast, but I received a 57 wpm score from here here, but that's 57 wpm without errors. I can't believe that I've actually gotten faster than I was in my typing class (~40 wpm). Edit: I forgot the how you type part. I do text book qwerty style, except I use my left thumb to hit the space bar. I can still hear my typing teacher complaining. Can you say annal?
IMO a typing system is inefficient. Develop what works for you.
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I feel like a total noob reading this thread and then finding out I type at an amazing 30 wpm. But then I also I haven't had any typing class as it seams most people have and I also almost only type with one hand. The one hand stuff i believe comes from gaming where I always have one hand on the keyboard and one on the mouse..
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I type between 60 and 100 words per minute. Learned using Mario Teaches Typing and Micro type. I use my index fingers to much and my other fingers too little. Only use pinkies for shifts and enter and don't like thumbs.
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I have about 120-140 WPM usually. I use my right thumb for the space bar, and actually use all my fingers on my left hand, and index, middle and ring finger on my right hand. I only use my right pinky to press the space bar, shift key, and ;'\. Also, I sometimes use my thumbs for the keys next to the spacebar (ie cvbnm)
I think I learned to type initially using one of those lame typing games you play in elementary school, but was using very poor form (ie only using index/middle fingers).
I really started typing properly when I took computer science courses in high school and began to create programs.
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Damn it, this whole time I actually believed I typed at like 120 wpm, but then I decided to test myself on one of those online tests, and found out I average between 60-70 wpm (I can get up to 120 if I just forget about trying to be accurate and just speed through though).
Reading some of the responses in this thread make me feel so slow =/
On April 07 2010 07:34 Old Sagat wrote:
Learned using Mario Teaches Typing. Awesome! Me too!
Oh, and to answer the other question, I type "properly" in that I have all my fingers on the home row, use my fingers almost equally depending on what I'm typing, use thumbs for space, etc.
Edit: decided to look this up on wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute
In one study of average computer users, the average rate for transcription was 33 words per minute, and only 19 words per minute for composition.[1] In the same study, when the group was divided into "fast", "moderate" and "slow" groups, the average speeds were 40 wpm, 35 wpm, and 23 wpm respectively. I feel better now 
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I seem to average 50-60 wpm on those different tests, most of the time 100% accuracy though (partly because I just can't stop myself correcting a typo). My typing technique is horrendous though, I only use my two index fingers for everything. Guess I never learnt to type the proper way. :/
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I type between 75-100 wpm. I use two hand touch typing.
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I just took a speedtest at http://speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com/ and got 82 wpm with 1 or 2 typos.
Probably would get higher if i took it again though because I wasnt familiar with format of the test.
I tend to just use all fingers on left hand and all but pinky on the right (except for right shift, which is what i use all the time to capitalize and do symbols)
zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba
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110-120wpm usually, I use my right index finger for spacebar, and I usually never really use my pinky finger unless it's for the quotation marks and shift key.
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On April 07 2010 08:51 ZaplinG wrote:I just took a speedtest at http://speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com/ and got 82 wpm with 1 or 2 typos. Probably would get higher if i took it again though because I wasnt familiar with format of the test. I tend to just use all fingers on left hand and all but pinky on the right (except for right shift, which is what i use all the time to capitalize and do symbols) zyxwvutsrqponmlkjihgfedcba Got 71 on my first try, gonna try to beat it now that im warmed up
79 second try, with no mistakes too!
339 points, so you achieved position 7266 of 179977 on the ranking list
wow I didn't think that 79 wpm was actually fast. I guess it is just slow in the context of TL's blazingly fast typists.
From wiki:
The average human being hand writes at 31 words per minute for memorized text and 22 words per minute while copying This is why I dislike TAs who make you put away your laptops during section
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without reading 8 pages of replies to see if this method has already been posted...
I am a seasoned user of computers who has been typing on QWERTY probably for two solid decades. I've never used dvorak ever, nor split ergonomic keyboards for any length of time, only incidentally.
I remember being clocked at around 100/110 WPM as a teenager. I just did a google search while writing this post for "typing speed test", picked the first one, and got 91 WPM on the first try, just so I could post current results.
How do I do it? Well, I use a modified "home row" (asdf jkl; ), except I move both of my hands outward, away from the middle, the distance of one key each. This leaves my ring, middle, and fore fingers resting above asd and kl;. Thus, I use my powerful fingers to reach into the middle of the keyboard, while my weak pinky fingers do not participate in the typing of characters. Instead, they rest on system keys that they can press immediately when called for, instead of having to move there (which would be slow, because they are weak fingers). I hit left-shift with my left pinky and the Return key with my right pinky. Space bar is obviously my thumbs. Actually I'm not sure if I press space with my left or right thumb but as I typed this sentence I noticed that it was my right thumb exclusively hitting the space bar. I guess my left thumb is entirely idle.
This method developed naturally for me after learning home row when I was younger, which I found to be too slow (most people reading this thread probably know that QWERTY w/ home row is designed to artificially slow down typists, so that typewriters wouldn't get stuck...) I learned home row by taking a keyboarding class using Apple ][e's in middle school, and I also learned on Mavis Beacon software before that.
I guess this may not work for you if you don't have good reach? Not sure. My handspan is one octave and another eighth on a piano.
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About 70-80 WPM. I type dvorak usually, but I'm pretty keyboard bilingual between it and regular qwerty. I'm passably fast on qwerty still, but I need to watch the keyboard the whole time and I screw up little things like hitting 'e' instead of '.'.
Before switching to dvorak I had a sort of bastardized hunt-and-peck style, but since the switch I type more-or-less properly with the home row stuff and whatnot. I actually find I type faster and more accurately if I'm not looking at the screen OR the keyboard.
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I type about 50-60 wpm, seeing as I'm not like in a race or something when I type. I don't really use the "standard method" but it doesn't really matter. I have to look at the key board a lot of the time though.
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I'm straight up sc typer. all fingers on left hand (hotkey hand) and only index on right hand (left clicking finger)
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150 wpm
i learned my right hand placement wrong. instead of having my index finger on J, I have it on H. so each finger is moved one key to the left lol
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There is a computer science professor in my university that types with only two fingers.
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Well ive always been very impressed with how fast some people can type my mother for example was a medical secutary for many years and she could type with no mistakes at any speed that was required as she mainly did dictation at meetings. As an aside as you can see my typeing is pitiful.
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On April 06 2010 06:53 BroOd wrote:
ok so I started out 40 wpm.
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...
freaking epic I laughed the hardest I have in weeks reading this lol makes me realize how immature I looked =p
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type-racer is probably the best website for settling this. I bet almost everyone in here is exaggerating. My best record over 5 minutes of typing with punctuation, numbers, etc, was 147WPM 100% accuracy on qwerty. I use 100% proper typing technique, and play on type-racer quite a lot!
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