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.
Me?
30 wpm
92% accuracy.
Posted by skadder (Member # 6757) on :
Actually it is different each time.
Second time was 38 wpm and 98% accuracy.
Posted by dee_boncci (Member # 2733) on :
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.
Posted by aspirit (Member # 7974) on :
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.
Posted by Edward Douglas (Member # 8872) on :
72wpm, 100% acc
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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Posted by skadder (Member # 6757) on :
Yes. One space after a sentence such I have done here. Two spaces used to be the norm, but it changed.
Posted by Pyre Dynasty (Member # 1947) on :
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.)
Posted by D2 (Member # 8930) on :
I'm always a bit slower in these tests, because I have a tendency to spam backspace the second I make a mistake.
Still, 129 / 94% isn't too bad
Posted by MAP (Member # 8631) on :
I got 37 words per minute with 97% acurracy. But I type the rate I think, so it works for me.
Posted by Meredith (Member # 8368) on :
47 wpm. 96% accuracy. I never said I was a typist. I think I do better with the words in my own head, though. Posted by BenM (Member # 8329) on :
90 words per minute, 100% accuracy. Now if only I could think that fast.
Posted by Kitti (Member # 7277) on :
118 wpm with 100% accuracy. No wonder I out-type my computer sometimes.
One of my roommates once told me my typing reminded her of "that herd of dancing elephants in Fantasia."
Hmm...
Posted by Pontifax (Member # 2414) on :
81, 99% here. I kept screwing up by hitting backspace when I'd miss one. Posted by Bent Tree (Member # 7777) on :
39/100% I am slow but thorough Posted by Foste (Member # 8892) on :
44/99%
Not bad... Could be better though.
Posted by satate (Member # 8082) on :
70/98% Posted by KayTi (Member # 5137) on :
94wpm/97% accuracy.
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!
Posted by genevive42 (Member # 8714) on :
39wpm at 98%
Oh well, it does all right by me. I'm faster than I was in my high school typing class.
Posted by skadder (Member # 6757) on :
Don't forget the tutorials, people. So you can IMPROVE your WPM. A little practice each week will dramatically improve your speed.
-Of course, I am refering to people on the lower end of the speed spectrum, like me.
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Posted by MartinV (Member # 5512) on :
58 wpm with 95% accuracy. I think if I would have been less in a hurry I might do more.
