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So we know your APM - what's your WPM?

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Sawajiri
Profile Joined June 2007
Austria417 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-16 09:49:21
May 16 2009 09:41 GMT
#1
WPM - or words per minute - measures your typing speed. I figure most of us on tl.net should have pretty high WPMs. :-) To measure your WPM, go here.

Mine:

Net Speed: 86 WPM
(words/minute)
Accuracy: 94%
Gross Speed: 91 WPM
(words/minute)

A few guidelines:

around 30 WPM is the speed of an average internet user.
50-60 WPM is the speed of an average office worker.
around 80 WPM plus is the speed of a professional typist.
100 plus WPM is the speed of an advanced professional typist.

Raithed
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
China7078 Posts
May 16 2009 09:45 GMT
#2
actually old.......
fanatacist
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
10319 Posts
May 16 2009 09:50 GMT
#3
Please use the search function, thank you.

- Guy who isn't staff
Peace~
writer22816
Profile Blog Joined September 2008
United States5775 Posts
May 16 2009 10:08 GMT
#4
On May 16 2009 18:41 Sawajiri wrote:
100 plus WPM is the speed of an advanced professional typist.


ty for boosting my ego
8/4/12 never forget, never forgive.
ShadowDrgn
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States2497 Posts
May 16 2009 10:10 GMT
#5
100 WPM might have been the speed of an advanced professional typist in the 80's, but with people growing up with computers these days, it's nothing special.
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that’s the end of you.
ZoW
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
United States3983 Posts
May 16 2009 10:13 GMT
#6
Its kinda embarrassing, but I've always typed slow as fuck
the courage to be a lazy bum
Dead9
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States4725 Posts
May 16 2009 10:15 GMT
#7
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=82825
Scary, isn't it :[
Zapdos_Smithh
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Canada2620 Posts
May 16 2009 10:15 GMT
#8
already been posted no? i'm about 70ish btw
Cambium
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States16368 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-16 10:21:07
May 16 2009 10:19 GMT
#9
70 on my laptop 1st run.

I think I could break 100 with my natural keyboard...

From the other thread:

You type 540 characters per minute
You have 103 correct words and
you have 1 wrong words

w/e
When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Latham
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
9571 Posts
May 16 2009 10:38 GMT
#10
58 WPM and 96% accuracy.
For the curse of life is the curse of want. PC = https://be.pcpartpicker.com/user/LathamTK/builds/#view=CrqmP6
HeavOnEarth
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
United States7087 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-16 11:29:42
May 16 2009 11:28 GMT
#11
109 from the test i took a couple seconds ago.
~5-10 wpm increase from a year ago, meh.
lolol 9.99 for a certificate stating what you know you can already do !
http://www.typingtest.com/certificate.asp
"come korea next time... FXO house... 10 korean, 10 korean"
Raithed
Profile Blog Joined May 2007
China7078 Posts
May 16 2009 12:00 GMT
#12
i wonder which is better, to get high % accuracy or a lot of WPM.
Zurles
Profile Joined February 2009
United Kingdom1659 Posts
May 16 2009 12:53 GMT
#13
there's way too much punctuation, who types like that
unknown.sam
Profile Joined May 2007
Philippines2701 Posts
May 16 2009 13:08 GMT
#14
Net Speed: 85 WPM
(words/minute)
Accuracy: 92%
Gross Speed: 92 WPM
(words/minute)

lol i had this demo that had about the same paragraphs to type, and i remember having an easy time with the aesop's one. so naturally that's the one i picked

so hard to type on a laptop

"Thanks for the kind words, but if SS is the most interesting book you've ever read, you must have just started reading a couple of weeks ago." - Mark Rippetoe
Aylear
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Norway3988 Posts
May 16 2009 14:12 GMT
#15
Net Speed: 130 WPM
(words/minute)
Accuracy: 100%
Gross Speed: 130 WPM
(words/minute)

I did this test a year or two ago, and it was about 145 WPM with 100% accuracy. Since then I've stopped writing as much so I don't get as much practice simply typing fast. People keep blankly staring at me from across a room at my typing, but it's honestly nothing special.
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ketomai
Profile Joined June 2007
United States2789 Posts
May 16 2009 14:19 GMT
#16
Net Speed: 124 WPM
(words/minute)
Accuracy: 100%
Gross Speed: 124 WPM
(words/minute)

I don't think 100 can be the speed of a professional typist >.>. I learned to type this fast just by being on the internet a lot and playing a couple mmo's, I'm sure that many others are the same.
konadora *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Singapore66358 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-16 14:20:42
May 16 2009 14:20 GMT
#17
Net Speed: 85 WPM
(words/minute)
Accuracy: 98%
Gross Speed: 86 WPM
(words/minute)

God damn punctuations.

Edit: I did the 3minute one :X
POGGERS
Texas
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Germany2388 Posts
May 16 2009 14:22 GMT
#18
e-penis gogo
thedeadhaji *
Profile Blog Joined January 2006
39489 Posts
May 16 2009 14:23 GMT
#19
gogo dronebabo lol
Aylear
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Norway3988 Posts
May 16 2009 14:28 GMT
#20
On May 16 2009 23:19 nevake wrote:
I don't think 100 can be the speed of a professional typist >.>. I learned to type this fast just by being on the internet a lot and playing a couple mmo's, I'm sure that many others are the same.


Yeah, it seems weird that 100 should be "professional typist." That's like... teenage IRC fast, not professional typist fast.
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