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57 Corvette
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada5941 Posts
March 11 2011 16:16 GMT
#81
I got 67 this time on this test, but I stumbled a few times. I am sure if i warmed up more I could hit 70 or 75.
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Greggle
Profile Joined June 2010
United States1131 Posts
March 11 2011 16:26 GMT
#82
Pfft, more importantly I beat The Typing of the Dead.
Life is too short to take it seriously.
Souma
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
2nd Worst City in CA8938 Posts
March 11 2011 16:47 GMT
#83
When I used to frequently practice typing fast my peak average was 150 WPM with 95% accuracy.

Right now it seems my peak average is 130 WPM with less than 95% accuracy, 145 Gross WPM :< I'm getting old.

If you get me angry, though, I go Super Saiyan and will type 150-160 WPM with almost 100% accuracy. :>

My SC2 APM is like 100-110.
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Heafmo
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
United Kingdom70 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-11 17:25:30
March 11 2011 16:56 GMT
#84
+ Show Spoiler +
On March 12 2011 00:16 Serejai wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.


Ok well I don't spam at all and I guess I could use a better word than correlation. I was wondering if maybe there's some kind of relation to do with the limits of an individuals dexterity.

Most of the issue is knowing what you're going to do next, but in theory someone who can reach 100wpm but not 140wpm with ease.. probably won't increase in apm from 70apm upwards (based on what Day[9] says about only needing around 70 effective APM) without a LOT of time spent playing. But then again starcraft involves different skills and requirements as a prerequisite to be able to make use of effective APM

feel my APM currently is limited by my game sense/knowledge of the game and simply that I haven't reached any degree of competence yet.

with regards to this you have to consider that on a keyboard you have 8 fingers in contact with a vast amount of keys.

Ultimately, upon further pondering, it's a pretty ineffective question I'm asking. But I find it interesting to some degree none the less.

Edit: Downloading Typing of the dead. Can. Not. Wait.
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tbrown47
Profile Joined August 2009
United States1235 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-11 17:24:59
March 11 2011 17:21 GMT
#85
I got 84 WPM on my first try... but seriously... here is my depiction of that astronaut essay:

Alan,.,., Shepherd,.,.,, Jr,.,, --- to name,,.,., a few.,.,., --

tripped over myself like 40 times trying to get the correct amount of commas and periods, jesus

edit:

Tried again with a different essay and got 98, sounds more like me

edit #2:

3rd try to break 100 and I blasted up to 113, /flex
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GriMeR
Profile Joined February 2010
United States148 Posts
March 11 2011 17:59 GMT
#86
lol yeah im a bit above 100 :D
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LeCastor
Profile Joined July 2010
France234 Posts
March 11 2011 18:13 GMT
#87
On March 12 2011 01:26 Greggle wrote:
Pfft, more importantly I beat The Typing of the Dead.


This game is awesome to improve your typing.

I also played a lot at typespeed.exe under cygwin at my workplace.
phiinix
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
United States1169 Posts
March 11 2011 18:16 GMT
#88
I type at 40 wpm, I play sc at 110 apm. Correlation? I don't think so...
Serejai
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
6007 Posts
March 11 2011 18:23 GMT
#89
On March 12 2011 01:56 Heafmo wrote:
+ Show Spoiler +
On March 12 2011 00:16 Serejai wrote:
Show nested quote +
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.


Ok well I don't spam at all and I guess I could use a better word than correlation. I was wondering if maybe there's some kind of relation to do with the limits of an individuals dexterity.

Most of the issue is knowing what you're going to do next, but in theory someone who can reach 100wpm but not 140wpm with ease.. probably won't increase in apm from 70apm upwards (based on what Day[9] says about only needing around 70 effective APM) without a LOT of time spent playing. But then again starcraft involves different skills and requirements as a prerequisite to be able to make use of effective APM

feel my APM currently is limited by my game sense/knowledge of the game and simply that I haven't reached any degree of competence yet.

with regards to this you have to consider that on a keyboard you have 8 fingers in contact with a vast amount of keys.

Ultimately, upon further pondering, it's a pretty ineffective question I'm asking. But I find it interesting to some degree none the less.

Edit: Downloading Typing of the dead. Can. Not. Wait.


Indeed, it's interesting in multiple ways. For example, with a WPM of around 100... you're typing at nearly 600 CPM. So, in theory, a Starcraft player could play with that much APM.

Obviously, you would have time to do anything other than spam, so you would lose... but I think it's cool to know that the theoretical APM limit is literally six or seven times higher than what you actually need to play the game effectively. I feel that this shows the limit in APM needed is due to game limitations rather than human limitations.
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ThaZenith
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Canada3116 Posts
March 11 2011 18:31 GMT
#90
78 on the first 1 min online test I could find.

I'm ok with that.
BGrael
Profile Joined November 2010
Germany229 Posts
March 11 2011 18:52 GMT
#91
You should dry out typeracer, where you can type against other people. My average is around 60 wpm in that one.
Joementum
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
787 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-11 20:27:54
March 11 2011 20:27 GMT
#92
80 WPM. Not that bad.
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AirbladeOrange
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
United States2573 Posts
March 11 2011 20:37 GMT
#93
73 WPM. I am pretty fast with the regular letters, but I lose so much time with the semicolons and quotes and anything that isn't a letter or a period.

It's very slightly higher than my average APM in a mediumish length game.
KevinIX
Profile Joined October 2009
United States2472 Posts
March 11 2011 20:37 GMT
#94
66 wpm. I have a hard time believing that the average typist types at 36 words per minute. O.o That's like a word every 2 seconds...
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forgotten0ne
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States951 Posts
March 11 2011 20:41 GMT
#95
2 finger typist ftw! But yet I'm a 200 apm Zerg.
"Well it’s obvious that these Terran gamers are just extremely gifted when it comes to RTS games" -Ret, in regards to the first months of SC2
The KY
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
United Kingdom6252 Posts
March 11 2011 20:42 GMT
#96
On March 12 2011 05:37 KevinIX wrote:
66 wpm. I have a hard time believing that the average typist types at 36 words per minute. O.o That's like a word every 2 seconds...


I can believe it, seeing other people who are not nerds type is incredibly painful. Was in an investigation at work recently and everything I said had to be typed out...agony.
sc4k
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United Kingdom5454 Posts
March 11 2011 20:43 GMT
#97
77, two finger style haha. My brain went to mulch by the end of it though, having to capitalize 'the Bat' every time was ridiculous.
Marl
Profile Joined January 2010
United States692 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-03-11 21:03:46
March 11 2011 20:56 GMT
#98
Got 54 as a two finger typist. Took two tests and got that both times, kind of surprised as the last time I took one of these tests I was in the 30s.

edit took one of the tests a second time and got 62... this can't be right.

(My APM's is usually around 50)
Orpheos
Profile Joined April 2010
United States1663 Posts
March 11 2011 21:02 GMT
#99
honestly i feel like the bottle neck in this test for me wasnt typing fast enough it was reading it fast enough. i took alot of breaks just to read ahead where as if im typing my regular thoughts i can go alot quicker. zzz maybe im just a slow ass reader.
BrenttheGreat
Profile Joined July 2010
United States150 Posts
March 11 2011 21:06 GMT
#100
86WPM 100%
80 APM
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