By July 10, 2007

How fast can you type?

Big thanks to Cailin’s site for posting this really fun Java-based application that tests your typing speed. You type for as quickly and accurately as possible for two minutes. You may choose your language; I believe the default is English. Anyway, take the test and post your results. Here are my results:

That was awesome! English is my only language. Here are my results:

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Your score: 492 keys per minute ~ 98 words per minute
Language/mode: en
Ranking: Very fast.
Comparison: 4% of registered TyperA users using this language have typed a better result; 96% have a lower or equal result.

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Mistakes: fluidity,(fluidity)

Well done!
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How do you fare?

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  1. roclar says:
    July 10, 2007 at 1:04 pm

    Bleh. I found it difficult to type random English gibberish. I ended up mentally processing the sentence and sometimes typing what I was thinking instead of just typing exactly what was there. In any event, you stomped me:

    Game over

    Your score: 246 keys per minute ~ 49 words per minute
    Language/mode: en
    Ranking: Not bad!
    Comparison: 50% of registered TyperA users using this language have typed a better result; 50% have a lower or equal result.

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    Mistakes: the(machine), main.(man.), Meanwhile(Meanwhile,), marin(marine), biologinst(biologist), ne(new), dont’t(don’t), unkown(unknown), the(this), bargins(bargains), the(this), mattter(matter)

  2. Cailin Coilleach says:
    July 10, 2007 at 4:50 pm

    As you saw over at my blog, you stomped me as well. Although I actually do pretty well 🙂

  3. Seeyo says:
    July 12, 2007 at 11:46 am

    Your score: 292 keys per minute ~ 58 words per minute
    Language/mode: en
    Ranking: You’ve got potential.
    Comparison: 36% of registered TyperA users using this language have typed a better result; 64% have a lower or equal result.

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    Mistakes: ignorance(ignorance.), you’l(you’ll), Whi(Why), so(so?)

    Thought for sure that my career as a programmer would trigger a higher score.

    On the other hand, I figure that I probably type about twice as fast when I’m typing my own thoughts as opposed to trying to read and type at the same time.

  4. Configuratrix says:
    July 13, 2007 at 5:27 pm

    I’m averaging about 50 wpm on that test.

    I used to like Typershark (http://www.popcap.com/games/free/typershark) but it’s taken forever to load today; perhaps they “improved” it :-/