First try only--subsequent tries will be faster as you will no longer need to read the text.
Also note that there is heading 'TYPING TUTORIALS'. If you practice these as specified (using the specific fingers without glancing at the keyboard) you typing speed will increase dramatically.
This means more productivity, more stories. Your prose will improve quicker as you race to the million word mark.
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I got 36 wpm, 100% accuracy. A lot better than I would have thought. I haven't measured in a while but when typing fiction, I tend to get about 10-15 wpm and oodles of screw ups.
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Typing from sight does not reflect the speed that one types story draft.
My first test results were 60 wpm with a 99% accuracy. (I expect I'd have scored better if the cat hadn't laid on my arm.) My average draft typing speed is possibly 10 to 17 wpm.
Still not fast enough for the thoughts pouring forth from my head. You should see my handwriting when I write fast, sometimes I don't even recognize the words and have to decipher...arghhhh!
I noticed in this test that there was one space between sentences and not the two I grew up with. Is this now the norm? Do I need to adjust my manuscripts I send out to reduce computer generated word counts?
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Yes. One space after a sentence such I have done here. Two spaces used to be the norm, but it changed.
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42 with 90% accuracy. (For some reason I always screw up when it comes to x.) When I'm actually drafting I tend to write quite fast but the the thinking inbetween bursts probably cuts my wpm. (My average is usually around 1 thousand words an hour, which comes out to roughly 16 wpm.)
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47 wpm. 96% accuracy. I never said I was a typist. I think I do better with the words in my own head, though. Posts: 4633 | Registered: Dec 2008
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Though I question the ability to predict wpm speed on one one-minute typing sample...but that's just me being a statistical snob.
Touch typing was one of the best things my mother forced us to learn as children (that + piano, I'm forever in her debt.) I can keep up with the idea train, sort of, while writing. That's huge!
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