Touch typing test.

[lucky_scrote]

I wonder what Tony would score with his one finger left handed keyboard turned sideways method?

512 CPM = 103 WPM.

103 words per month?

[titaniumbean]

pfffty getting sucky in my old age, each mistake I pressed spacebar then went back to fix and caused another one


Your score: 639 CPM (that is 128 WPM)

In reality, you typed 655 CPM, but you made 3 mistakes (out of 120 words), which were not counted in the corrected scores.

Your mistakes were:

Instead of "self", you typed "seflf".
Instead of "bird", you typed "bhird".
Instead of "need", you typed "nee".

 

[Ironside]

i think we need a sweepstake on Ironside taking the test WPM and mistakes?

[vegaslover]

your score 192 CPM (that is 38 WPM)

I'm very rusty, but that test seemed on the easy side for a typing test

[Jon MW]

your score 192 CPM (that is 38 WPM)

I'm very rusty, but that test seemed on the easy side for a typing test

Online touch typing tests always tend to be on the easy side. I've had quite a few in the past from employment agencies and they're usually a lot more thorough.

I think my of the younger generation will be able to do it we have grown up typing nowadays. We have a girl who was professionally a "typist" when we first employed her about 15 years ago. It wasn't till about 5 years after that I first touched a keyboard. She can spell better than me but I think I'm probably a few words a minute faster than her now touch typing and I've never been taught just learnt after consistent use

We've had a few young people do work for us over the past couple of years, the impression I get from them, and others I know, is that the younger generations of those at school or just leaving school do have a lot of practice typing and can often do it quick - but it's not touch typing. It's just pretty fast 2 finger typing. The problem is that this tends to mean a lot more typos (and spelling mistakes if you never learn to spell that well).

However quick it is initially, it's very unlikely to be faster than if the same person can touch type properly and spell checking afterwards pulls down the speed a massive amount.

I think they actually should specifically teach touch typing in school - I was taught it in a business studies lesson; but it wasn't on the curriculum - our teacher was actually really old fashioned. As it happens she was spot on and I think it would be ideal if it was actually taught as a basic skill early on in secondary school.

[BorntoBubble]

your score 192 CPM (that is 38 WPM)

I'm very rusty, but that test seemed on the easy side for a typing test

Online touch typing tests always tend to be on the easy side. I've had quite a few in the past from employment agencies and they're usually a lot more thorough.

I think my of the younger generation will be able to do it we have grown up typing nowadays. We have a girl who was professionally a "typist" when we first employed her about 15 years ago. It wasn't till about 5 years after that I first touched a keyboard. She can spell better than me but I think I'm probably a few words a minute faster than her now touch typing and I've never been taught just learnt after consistent use

We've had a few young people do work for us over the past couple of years, the impression I get from them, and others I know, is that the younger generations of those at school or just leaving school do have a lot of practice typing and can often do it quick - but it's not touch typing. It's just pretty fast 2 finger typing. The problem is that this tends to mean a lot more typos (and spelling mistakes if you never learn to spell that well).

However quick it is initially, it's very unlikely to be faster than if the same person can touch type properly and spell checking afterwards pulls down the speed a massive amount.

I think they actually should specifically teach touch typing in school - I was taught it in a business studies lesson; but it wasn't on the curriculum - our teacher was actually really old fashioned. As it happens she was spot on and I think it would be ideal if it was actually taught as a basic skill early on in secondary school.

i found for me that as ive grown older my left hand has moved further and further right and into the "correct" position so that now my hands do half ish the keyboard each whereas i used to be very right hand dominant.

Its really hard to talk about typing while typing, has anyone found this?

What ive found from work is that "professional typists" know a hell of a lot of keyboard shortcuts.

[Marky147]

I had to learn when I was on CT course in the Navy, so got pretty good quite fast.

Then wasn't using comps much when I left there, but started playing Poker in 2004, and have been plotted up at a PC in some way or another ever since.

[lucky_scrote]

pfffty getting sucky in my old age, each mistake I pressed spacebar then went back to fix and caused another one


Your score: 639 CPM (that is 128 WPM)

In reality, you typed 655 CPM, but you made 3 mistakes (out of 120 words), which were not counted in the corrected scores.

Your mistakes were:

Instead of "self", you typed "seflf".
Instead of "bird", you typed "bhird".
Instead of "need", you typed "nee".

 

I expected better.

[Claw75]

Can't compete with Titbean. Used to be able to hit 100wpm back in the day but rustier now - still pretty pleased with this:

your score: 391 CPM (that is 78 WPM).

In reality you typed 394 CPM, but you made 1 mistake (out of 86 words) which was not counted in the corrected scores.

Your mistake was:

Instead of "an" you typed "anm"