How fast do you type? Take the test!

[Eisenwinter]

http://speedtest.10-fast-fingers.com/

This is my result on the second time I've tried it:

You type 416 characters per minute
You have 68 correct words and
you have 6 wrong words


68 Words per minute.

[aeiah]

You type 361 characters per minute
You have 69 correct words and
you have 0 wrong words


im sure id have typed faster if the words were in some normal grammatical order

[elmer_42]

On my first try I got 71 words per minute. That wasn't a great surprise to me, I figured that was about what I would get. One thing I would like to know, though is this: does it count a word as a 5 character string or a word as we normally think of it?

[Eisenwinter]

@aeiah

Yeah, that makes it harder, because you have to read and write the word at the same time.

[itreius]

You type 500 characters per minute
You have 90 correct words and
you have 6 wrong words

[SuperSonic4]

You type 375 characters per minute
You have 59 correct words and
you have 4 wrong words

[Ozor Mox]

You type 405 characters per minute
You have 73 correct words and
you have 0 wrong words

On my second attempt. I thought I'd be slower since I don't touch type. I'd be interested to see what the Dvorak users get on this compared to the Qwerty users...

[-grubby]

You type 508 characters per minute
You have 76 correct words and
you have 13 wrong words

On the second try..

You type 545 characters per minute
You have 88 correct words and
you have 8 wrong words

[init1]

49 WPM, a lot faster than I was in 8th grade when I took keyboarding :D

[aeiah]

@aeiah

Yeah, that makes it harder, because you have to read and write the word at the same time.

yea, it tests copying speed, although i suppose there isnt really a way around that. they use the words they do because they're the most common english ones though, which i suppose is slightly more useful than 'the quick brown fox' or something.

my typing used to be shitfast when i talked a lot on IM but ive grown antisocial in my age.

[fedex1993]

i got up to 96 on my second try and only missed two words because they where captitalized

[tuxxy]

205 points, so you achieved position 336861 of 901514 on the ranking list


You type 317 characters per minute
You have 52 correct words and
you have 4 wrong words

52 words per minute

[yabbadabbadont]

56 words per minute which, strangely enough, is exactly how fast I was on an old IBM typewriter back in high school. (they didn't have computers in most high schools back then...)

I'm quite a bit faster when I'm in the groove and the code is flowing though.

[SomeGuyDude]

You type 542 characters per minute
You have 92 correct words and
you have 5 wrong words

92 words

Would have done better, but the fact that it isn't actual sentences kinda screwed me up.

INTERESTINGLY, I usually typed a wrong word, not a misspelling. So the word "something" would pop up, and I'd type "sometimes".

[kg4tah]

You type 431 characters per minute
You have 78 correct words and
you have 3 wrong words

[m_ad]

You type 474 characters per minute
You have 84 correct words and
you have 2 wrong words

made some mistakes too, had to backspace a lot :mad:

[ciscosurfer]

You type 411 characters per minute
You have 72 correct words and
you have 1 wrong words
2nd run
You type 414 characters per minute
You have 76 correct words and
you have 0 wrong words

[Le-Froid]

First try:
You type 429 characters per minute
You have 67 correct words and
you have 3 wrong words

Second Try:
You type 457 characters per minute
You have 78 correct words and
you have 3 wrong words

[Twitch6000]

Try 1

You type 215 characters per minute
You have 38 correct words and
you have 2 wrong words


Try 2

You type 252 characters per minute
You have 48 correct words and
you have 0 wrong words

[Seidojohn]

First try:
You type 360 characters per minute
You have 61 correct words and
you have 2 wrong words

Second try:
You type 385 characters per minute
You have 73 correct words and
you have 0 wrong words



Not as fast as most of you, but I'm still pretty happy I broke 70 wpm. :)

[DoktorSeven]

Try 1:

You type 388 characters per minute
You have 74 correct words and
you have 0 wrong words
74wpm

Try 2:

You type 400 characters per minute
You have 68 correct words and
you have 1 wrong words
68wpm

Try 2 had longer words than try one, slowed me down.

[Daggo]

You type 205 characters per minute
You have 37 correct words and
you have 0 wrong words
37wpm

yes! I broke my 31 wpm record!
I never learned to type >.<

[billgoldberg]

You type 344 characters per minute
You have 60 correct words and
you have 0 wrong words

--

I do have a new keyboard as of today and I type faster in dutch.

[speedwell68]

It isn't a fair test IMHO. I did a module of basic touch typing when I went to college. It got you another diploma for nothing basically. Anyway, I digress, Basically a proper typing exam, where you are tested on words per minute and accuracy, the exam text will be grammatically correct, with proper punctuation and use of capital letters. That way the person taking the test can pre read each sentence and touch type the sentence from memory.

[billgoldberg]

It isn't a fair test IMHO. I did a module of basic touch typing when I went to college. It got you another diploma for nothing basically. Anyway, I digress, Basically a proper typing exam, where you are tested on words per minute and accuracy, the exam text will be grammatically correct, with proper punctuation and use of capital letters. That way the person taking the test can pre read each sentence and touch type the sentence from memory.

Indeed, that was how we got tested on our skills in high school.

And any mistake got you penalties.

[SomeGuyDude]

made some mistakes too, had to backspace a lot :mad:

That messed me up, too. I don't think in letters, I think in words. So I sort of "see" the path my fingers have to take to type everything, and I go for that. So when I make a typo, my brain throws "backspace" at the END of the pattern most of the time.

Example: when I was typing the above, I wrote "dhink" instead of "think". I knew I hit a 'd' immediately, but my fingers were already whipping out the rest of the word before I started hitting backspace, making me type it out twice instead of hitting the d, erasing it, and then starting again.

Yeah, I know, way too complex a post for something like this, but hey. I like to overanalyze. :lolflag:

[tom66]

You type 353 characters per minute
You have 53 correct words and
you have 4 wrong words

[Eisenwinter]

It isn't a fair test IMHO. I did a module of basic touch typing when I went to college. It got you another diploma for nothing basically. Anyway, I digress, Basically a proper typing exam, where you are tested on words per minute and accuracy, the exam text will be grammatically correct, with proper punctuation and use of capital letters. That way the person taking the test can pre read each sentence and touch type the sentence from memory.
Sounds like a nice little project to code, I shall start working on something like this right away.

If it ever gets done, I'll put it up here, so you can test yourself against that.

[kabotage]

0 points, so you achieved position 902323 of 902323 on the ranking list

You type 191 charcters per minute
You have 6 correct words and
you have 16 wrong words



something wrong with that site. LOL

[akiratheoni]

That messed me up, too. I don't think in letters, I think in words. So I sort of "see" the path my fingers have to take to type everything, and I go for that. So when I make a typo, my brain throws "backspace" at the END of the pattern most of the time.

Example: when I was typing the above, I wrote "dhink" instead of "think". I knew I hit a 'd' immediately, but my fingers were already whipping out the rest of the word before I started hitting backspace, making me type it out twice instead of hitting the d, erasing it, and then starting again.

Yeah, I know, way too complex a post for something like this, but hey. I like to overanalyze. :lolflag:

I do the same exact thing. Actually I got the same wpm as you, lol :P

You type 496 characters per minute
You have 92 correct words and
you have 1 wrong words

Second time:
You type 537 characters per minute
You have 99 correct words and
you have 1 wrong words

[Frak]

93 WPM on my first try on QWERTY
112 WPM on my second try on DVORAK

[benplaut]

It would be interesting to make one of these that pulls random passages from an ebook site (Gutenberg project, maybe?) for more normal text. Predicting is what it's all about, and that doesn't work very well with a site like this.

78, 2 errors.

[Blice]

You type 603 characters per minute
You have 108 correct words and
you have 4 wrong words


Total is 108.. Hum. First time I got 104, second I got 106, this was my third try. Maybe it'll keep going up by two the more I do it? I'll try again in a bit.

qwerty, btw.

EDIT:

You type 595 characters per minute
You have 112 correct words and
you have 1 wrong words

Total: 112.

EDIT:

Haha,


You type 621 characters per minute
You have 116 correct words and
you have 0 wrong words

[DownTown22]

You type 442 characters per minute
You have 86 correct words and
you have 2 wrong words

On a QWERTY

[y@w]

What would be more interesting would be to find out what gender everyone is. I tried to compete with my mom once... She was like "Well, that's pretty good for a guy.."

To answer the thread, I was something like 75-80 and she was 90-100. It was a while ago so I don't remember exactly how fast we were, but I spend a lot more time on a computer than she does. Plus, I do a lot of CLI work which is all typing, so in theory I should have been faster :)

[Bizz]

You type 404 characters per minute
You have 68 correct words and
you have 1 wrong words

68 words per minute.

I wish it was a passage intstead though...

[Mazza558]

You type 234 characters per minute
You have 39 correct words and
you have 2 wrong words

I'm a slow typer.

Second try


You type 271 characters per minute
You have 44 correct words and
you have 3 wrong words

[conundrumx]

You type 415 characters per minute
You have 75 correct words and
you have 2 wrong words


After I realized I could hit space instead of enter...

[Canis familiaris]

You type 215 characters per minute
You have 37 correct words and
you have 2 wrong words

I'm horribly slow-roach...

[bailout]

21wpm:-\" Someday I will learn to type, maybe :D

[aysiu]

You type 498 characters per minute
You have 3 correct words and
you have 90 wrong words This test isn't a good one, frankly. At first, I typed a lot more slowly than I normally do, as it was disorienting typing random words (not in a coherent sentence) not my own, with the letters changing color as I typed them. After a while, though, I adjusted and ended up typing faster than I normally do. I don't think I typed 90 wrong words, though... I guess if I use the Backspace to correct a word, they count it as wrong...

[ice60]

i didn't take the test, i don't have the stamina for that kind of stuff. i can type 3 or 4 words really fast! however, it must take a lot out of me because my typing speed very quickly goes down hill, i don't know why :confused: (i've been typing this post for a few hours now lol)

i can't be the only one whose performance gets worse with time??

[ice60]

the best typing test is the one which can't be cheated - you compete one-on-one - the fastest typer is the winner!!

here's the link for that typing game, you log in as a guest than start. -
http://play.typeracer.com/


i found this old post while looking for the link above, not much has changed in recent years lol
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1594839&postcount=6

[Frak]

the best typing test is the one which can't be cheated - you compete one-on-one - the fastest typer is the winner!!

here's the link for that typing game, you log in as a guest than start. -
http://play.typeracer.com/


i found this old post while looking for the link above, not much has changed in recent years lol
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1594839&postcount=6
I tried that site, and it's flawed. It says I'm only getting 49 WPM and always getting last place (I have 49 WPM, but he has 22? I know it's flawed as far as not detecting correct speeds, but common, even I can do basic arithmetic.)

[earthpigg]

You type 434 characters per minute
You have 82 correct words and
you have 0 wrong words

could have probably gone a lot faster if i didn't correct every misspelling.

and, if i had to use caps or punctuation i would have done much much worse.

[gaspard.leon]

168 points, so you achieved position 483551 of 913961 on the ranking list

You type 282 characters per minute
You have 42 correct words and
you have 2 wrong words

meh 41, and 40 on my first and second tries...

seems about as fast as I ever was... I find when it's not a sentence I pause more between words.

hard for me to absorb the sentence since it makes no sense..

Oh well.