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LosingID8
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
CA10828 Posts
May 16 2009 22:58 GMT
#61
Net Speed: 109 WPM
(words/minute)
Accuracy: 96%
Gross Speed: 113 WPM
(words/minute)

eh
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QuoC
Profile Blog Joined August 2008
United States724 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-05-17 03:55:14
May 17 2009 03:51 GMT
#62
Net Speed: 106 WPM
(words/minute)
Accuracy: 98%
Gross Speed: 108 WPM
(words/minute)

-- on a macbook computer keyboard, it's pretty comfortable..
I got used to it. and it's pretty easy to press the keys down.
I'm a professional typist? lol no way. hahaha
and my accuracy is kinda scary. wierd, but i've typed all my life..
and plus, what jobs really require "fast typing" only? really?
if there's a job that only requires copying of text onto computer,
i'd do it in a heartbeat.. but other skills are always required..
that's why I don't value my speed typing as much. a-men!
Dario "TLO" Wünsch -- Favorite SC2 Player
Heafmo
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United Kingdom70 Posts
March 11 2011 14:40 GMT
#63
Sorry for the bump but this interests me, I'd like to know if there is any correlation between WPM/CPM and APM. I'm surprised people aren't interested and didn't list their avg APM

Mine is probably 30-40 apm, spiking up to as high as 70APM!!!

First time I did the test I got 99WPM 100% accuracy (I did however have to go back and correct a few things)... yet I have horrible M+K control in Starcraft2. It seems the reason for that is different hand positioning and generally being bad at knowing what to do in SC2

Either way, 500cpm is a pretty beastly mark when you consider it, even though many people have achieved it, it goes to show the power of the mind and muscle-memory.
Ooh, I love it when they touch it.
Jombozeus
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
China1014 Posts
March 11 2011 14:46 GMT
#64
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.


Is this correct? I would imagine a professional typist should be hitting at least 120. I'm nowhere near professional (I dont even do it for anything other than games and essays) and I can hit 100+...

This is probably written somewhere already in the past 4 pages, but interested to see now, because I think average WPM raises significantly every year.
Heafmo
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United Kingdom70 Posts
March 11 2011 14:52 GMT
#65
I think the main thing Jombozeus is consistency! Through muscle memory you make less mistakes and you also become accustomed to dealing with those mistakes, I recorded my typing and I can correct things very fast, instantly pressing the return key the right amount of times.

When you first start learning, if you force yourself to not use the keyboard, once you start getting the hang of it it DOES increase with drastic speed! However I've found a slight plateau at the 100-110 WPM mark.
However I do believe professional would constitute immaculate grammar and punctuation ALONGSIDE the speed. I'm only kinda fast with ' " - @ ; : ! , . and 'shift' so Capital letters aren't an issue and again, they do slow me down a bit by roughly 10-15 WPM.

I would consider myself just a fast typist. I could become professional easy if I was to pursue an audio-typists position.

However, half my problem nowadays is I'm actually thinking about what I'm saying resulting in, effectively, probably 30-40 wpm... the speed of your average hunting and pecking typist.
Ooh, I love it when they touch it.
57 Corvette
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada5941 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-11 14:54:34
March 11 2011 14:53 GMT
#66
On a computer (labtop) that i use at work and am not entirely comfortable with yet, i managed to get 63 WPM with 3 errors that went uncorrected. I will edit my post when i try this on my Netbook computer, which i am very experienced with.

Edit: And I usually average around 70APM while playing SC2.
Survival is winning, everything else is bullshit.
susySquark
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1692 Posts
March 11 2011 14:58 GMT
#67
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Probably 80 apm in sc, up to 200 spikes
Ryndika
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
1489 Posts
March 11 2011 14:59 GMT
#68
On May 16 2009 19:10 ShadowDrgn wrote:
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.


Yes but most people use their native language when typing. I had problems when writing the text because the words wasn't like my native language words. I had to think about it and muscle memory was tilting me because of it.
as useful as teasalt
PandaCore
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Germany553 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-11 15:03:51
March 11 2011 15:01 GMT
#69
Net Speed: 82 WPM
(words/minute)
Accuracy: 100%
Gross Speed: 82 WPM
(words/minute)

I never learned the 10 finger system properly though and still use kinda my own system.
And I'm probably faster writing code than texts, since I'm a programmer and that's what I usually do.

Also I still found it a bit harder to type those texts in english, even though I'd consider my english to be quite good. And I'm just prone to always correct my mistakes, since in programming you can't just leave a typo in there.

I somehow can type C code 8 hours a day, but I'd probably go mad if I had to type actual sentences.
Not sure if this makes any sense ...
I has a flavor
57 Corvette
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada5941 Posts
March 11 2011 15:09 GMT
#70
I forgot to mention, while i type, i don't use homerow. I just found it didn't seem to help with my typing skills, only slow them down. I don't know if all that was true, but i just don't use homerow.
Survival is winning, everything else is bullshit.
Overpowered
Profile Joined January 2011
Czech Republic764 Posts
March 11 2011 15:15 GMT
#71
I suck. About 50. But I am satisfied with it
Just another gold Protoss...
Serejai
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
6007 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-11 15:18:56
March 11 2011 15:16 GMT
#72
On March 11 2011 23:40 Heafmo wrote:
Sorry for the bump but this interests me, I'd like to know if there is any correlation between WPM/CPM and APM. I'm surprised people aren't interested and didn't list their avg APM

Mine is probably 30-40 apm, spiking up to as high as 70APM!!!

First time I did the test I got 99WPM 100% accuracy (I did however have to go back and correct a few things)... yet I have horrible M+K control in Starcraft2. It seems the reason for that is different hand positioning and generally being bad at knowing what to do in SC2

Either way, 500cpm is a pretty beastly mark when you consider it, even though many people have achieved it, it goes to show the power of the mind and muscle-memory.


I type quite literally with two fingers (I poke the keys one at a time, and never have more than one finger touching the keyboard at the same time) and I average around 100-110 WPM. My APM, on the other hand, is usually around 30-40 when playing against Master league players.

I really don't see how there's any correlation at all between the two, considering most APM is just pointless spam in the first place, and in theory your max APM would be the same as your CPM (which in my case was like 600). The thing is, you're never going to be anywhere near your max, and your average is largely dependent on how much you want to spam and I don't feel that a higher WPM increases the desire to spam any.

Edited to correct APM numbers.
I HAVE 5 TOAST POINTS
heishe
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Germany2284 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-11 15:18:08
March 11 2011 15:17 GMT
#73
I seem to be pretty slow compared to most people here - my average WPM in english was only about 75WPM, my average WPM in German was about 90.

I'm also happy that my newly imported DT35 is indeed awesome - I type about 10 WPM faster on it in both languages than with my old standard keyboard.
If you value your soul, never look into the eye of a horse. Your soul will forever be lost in the void of the horse.
Misanthrope
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States924 Posts
March 11 2011 15:17 GMT
#74
Apparently I'm a professional typist.
Resolve to perform what you ought. Perform without fail what you resolve. - Benjamin Franklin
Fruscainte
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
4596 Posts
March 11 2011 15:23 GMT
#75
127 WPM
Grobyc
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
Canada18410 Posts
March 11 2011 15:23 GMT
#76
BW APM is ~200, SC2 APM is ~140, and I got a net of 75 WPM
If you watch Godzilla backwards it's about a benevolent lizard who helps rebuild a city and then moonwalks into the ocean.
Mindflow
Profile Joined November 2010
Korea (South)320 Posts
March 11 2011 15:26 GMT
#77
135 WPM (97%) 2 Years ago got the fastest typing in my HS.
Flyingdutchman
Profile Joined March 2009
Netherlands858 Posts
March 11 2011 15:27 GMT
#78
as long as the words are along the lines of sd14sd14sd14sv141414sddd I'll do fine :D
infinity21 *
Profile Blog Joined October 2006
Canada6683 Posts
March 11 2011 15:29 GMT
#79
I think my average wpm on typeracer is 110-120. Sc2 apm is 150-200 (in-game).
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TwilightStar
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States649 Posts
March 11 2011 15:34 GMT
#80
On March 12 2011 00:29 infinity21 wrote:
I think my average wpm on typeracer is 110-120. Sc2 apm is 150-200 (in-game).


Almost exact same for me:
I took this test and got 120 (though taking this test, I usually get around 130)

My apm is usually around 175-225. I see a correlation
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