Are you a good typist?

[cmore]

Here is a typing you can take to measure your speed and accuracy.

I make too many mistakes, got 22. About normal for me I guess.

TypingTest.com - Complete a Typing Test in 60 Seconds!

 

[Jack222]

77 with 76 mistakes. I am bad. 2 fingered typer.

 

[Salty RI]

I'm so good all I need is one finger.

 

[ContinentalOp]

73 wpm with 2 mistakes, so 71 wpm.

 

[Watchdog]

Interesting. I hit 62wpm with 6 mistyped words...giving me an adjusted speed of 56wpm.

What's interesting to me is I'm using a keyboard that I just bought yesterday. I'd been using an ergonomic keyboard for years, but it suddenly died, so I picked up a small flat keyboard at Walmart for ten bucks. Really...ten bucks. This keyboard sucks, actually. It's like the keys are too close together or something. I'm constantly hitting the Caps Lock key when trying to hit the Shift Key. And on the right side, I'm hitting the Enter key when I mean to hit the Shift key.

This keyboard is a textbook example of that "you get what you pay for" thing. It will be replaced very soon, and then held in reserve. Or I might just trash the thing.

On another note, my best speed ever was years ago when I hit a stopwatch-timed 75wpm with no errors on a keyboard that I was totally familiar with. I think that was pretty much a fluke, though.

 

[TomkinsSP]

Yws, wjy do yoi ask?

 

[H Richard]

I didn't take the test, but I do use all fingers, and don't do bad. I can even type without looking at the keyboard for a few seconds. In typing this I didn't make but 1 mistake to correct. Best 1 semester class I took in High School that didn't get used much for 15-20 years, but sure came back when computers came in to use.

 

[nachogrande]

I WAS THE BEST @ 10 WPM!

I got my foot in the door at a VAMC as a clerk typist 1982 when prescription labels were typed by hand. The hard part was getting the bottles to stay put in the typewriter. Well I had to pass a civil service test, took a typing class & only got up to 10 WPM. The good news was the civil service test for a clerk typist had NO typing in it, manual dexterity, hand speed, eye/hand coordination, basic math & English. I ended up with the highest score on record (at that time). Good enough for Gov't work? YOU BETCHA.

 

[Tom S.]

I don't need a test to tell me I'm a lousy typist - I live it every day. My sister on the other hand could do over 90 wpm when she was working as a secretary.

Interesting side note: the QWERTY key board was invented to slow typists down. Some people were so fast that the old mechanical typewriters were unable to keep up and jammed.

 

[moralem]

I use a voice recognition application.

 

[CajunBass]

About the same I did in high school. Fifty-One WPM.

I took typing for a couple of years in high school. I had heard if you could type, the service would find something for you to do other than tote a rifle. "Company Clerk" sounded a lot safer than "rifleman."

 

[snuffy51]

Two hands, one finger each and maybe an odd third finger every now and then. Short comments are good.

 

[Fishinfool]

I managed 30 WPM. Used to be faster when I was in practice, 50 or so WPM.

Took typing in high school. My buddies laughed at me, but that is were the girls were..

Glad I did, as I never realized how much paperwork was involved in law enforcement. Wish I knew how many hours of my time I saved over the years compared to the guys who poked along with one finger..

Larry

 

[Kurusu]

Yws, wjy do yoi ask?

ROFLMAO

That happens a lot to me typping in my little tablet with my big fat fingers.

Then, after I see what I have posted, I have to back and edit, just so people don't think I'm illiterate.

 

[walkin jack]

No simple answer for me. I can be fast or I can be accurate....Just not at the same time.

 

[Andy Lowry]

I don't need a test to tell me I'm a lousy typist - I live it every day. My sister on the other hand could do over 90 wpm when she was working as a secretary.

Interesting side note: the QWERTY key board was invented to slow typists down. Some people were so fast that the old mechanical typewriters were unable to keep up and jammed.

Yep, that's why I use Dvorak. All the vowels are in the home row on the left hand, and everything else is arranged by how common they are. A lot of frequently used words can be typed without leaving the home row.

The best part is when somebody sits down at one of my computers for the first time.

 

[old bear]

I ended up with a score of 23..

 

[nachogrande]

AMEN TO THAT

I managed 30 WPM. Used to be faster when I was in practice, 50 or so WPM.

Took typing in high school. My buddies laughed at me, but that is were the girls were..

I took the typing class in adult ed, & was the only guy in the class. All you could hear was tic tic tic, with a background of THUMP THUMP THUMP THUMP, and the teacher yelling for me to take it easy on his keyboards.
I wasn't allowed to use the electric ones.

 

[Rule3]

Hunt a peck!

The quick fox jumps over the lazy brown dog.

Them be all da letters.

 

[doublesharp]

half fast.