Take this typing speed test for me

[onehitwanda]

on my laptop.



I'm going to remind everyone that my laptop keyboard looks like this and that the s, w, d, c, r, v, a, e, n, k, m, l, and f keys don't function about every 4th time I hit them, probably every other time for r. :
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I'm disappointed. `U` shows no signs of wear - whatever you're doing, you're not fucking enough...

sorry!

 

[Erozetta]

I'm disappointed. `U` shows no signs of wear - whatever you're doing, you're not fucking enough...

sorry!

I'm gentle with u.

 

[onehitwanda]

I'm gentle with u.

...

 

[nice90sguy]

I'm gentle with u.

But you S W E A R too much, by the look of it

 

[Timesup]

https://monkeytype.com/

Tell me what keyboard you use too. I'm especially interested in responses from people who write on their phones.

https://monkeytype.com/

Tell me what keyboard you use too. I'm especially interested in responses from people who write on their phones.

US English on IPhone

 

[Erozetta]

But you S W E A R too much, by the look of it

So I'm told.

 

[SugarStorm]

Edit 2: iPhone third attempt. All thumbs baby

Good lord. Must be the fastest thumbs in the galaxy.

 

[BobbyBrandt]

Seriously?

I have the manual dexterity of a four-legged hoofed animal.

 

[ElectricBlue]

My typing speed was shit because I use a single finger hunt and peck style on a tablet screen, but even so 40 wpm with 92% accuracy. Haha. I then went on to do the IQ thingie and ranked in the top 5% of Aussie participants. Happy enough with that for a thirty second visual logic test. Which isn't a full IQ test as it's only checking one aptitude.

 

[CalBishForNow]

70 wpm, 96% accuracy on a Monster RK951 keyboard on my first attempt. (For years I used the keyboard built into my Legion laptop, but then it got damaged somehow, and plugging in a new keyboard seemed easier than getting it fixed.) I thought I was good at this stuff, but judging by other responses, maybe not. 100 wpm, 99% accuracy on my second attempt. Yay.

I only write on my phone when I don't have any other choice. I tried it just now on my phone and got 52 wpm, 97% accuracy. Seems about right by comparison.

Several artifacts of the test make it seem harder than it "should." For one thing, it took a while to get used to how the line advances on its own. I found myself getting confused with each new line on my first attempt, and halfway through my second attempt I started looking ahead a fraction of a second to anticipate the next word. For another, on a computer keyboard it's trivial to correct errors. I did so without thinking about it on my attempts on my computer. But it's harder on my phone. I'm not sure if that made either accuracy figure better or worse than it otherwise would have been.

 

[GuiltyCowboy]

1st try on my iPad

I’ve done this test before on my full size keyboard and hit somewhere around 135 WPM.

My actual productive WPM is more on the order of ~10 though lol
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Edit: iPhone wpm below
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Edit 2: iPhone third attempt. All thumbs baby
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Those iPhone figures are impressive!

I’m 46wpm and 98%. And thought I was chugging along at a respectable pace.

Although I hate my phone more than the devil himself, I write my stories on it, wherever I might be. It’s slow but not as slow as not writing at all.

(I then print on paper for review and editing and then tidy up on a desktop).

 

[cw5523729]

Standing at a desktop. My guess is you could divide that by 10 for my speed on a phone.

 

[SouthernCrossfire]

My fingers are cold this morning (I often wear fingerless gloves when I'm typing in the wintertime; Christmas stuff is out at the store but it's October so no gloves yet!) so I hit 51 WPM at 95% (on the 30 second test). I redid it for the full 60 second test and hit 56 WPM at 96%, my new best ever record. That's on an old, full-size keyboard with a built-in front pad that I like.

I typically type about 30 WPM when I'm writing.

 

[KittyOfSteele]

on my laptop.
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I'm going to remind everyone that my laptop keyboard looks like this and that the s, w, d, c, r, v, a, e, n, k, m, l, and f keys don't function about every 4th time I hit them, probably every other time for r. :
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Lots of wall humping for secrets in Wolf3D, DooM, and Daggerfall made the E key from my laptop to stop working, thus I am forced to use this old generic USB membrane keyboard to write.

The problem is I never managed to make it look like that. Judging by the layout it looks as if lots of FPS and ARPGs were played with it.

 

[Erozetta]

Lots of wall humping for secrets in Wolf3D, DooM, and Daggerfall made the E key from my laptop to stop working, thus I am forced to use this old generic USB membrane keyboard to write.

The problem is I never managed to make it look like that. Judging by the layout it looks as if lots of FPS and ARPGs were played with it.

Baldur's Gate 3, R.E.P.O., PEAK, Void Crew, Borderlands 2, Fallout 74, Saint's Row, The Sims 3, Enshrouded, and Jurassic World Evolution 1 & 2 mostly. Oh, and Marvel Rivals - Cloak & Dagger main.

Edited to add:
And Ark: Survival Evolved, Conan Exiles, Overcooked 1 & 2, Satisfactory, and probably some I'm forgetting because I haven't checked all of the accounts I play on...

 

[MrPixel]

I took the test and am not going to post the results - too embarrassing, both speed and errors. I've felt these flat Apple-branded keyboards are not the best for typing, and the test confirmed that. Maybe I'd spend less time backspacing and more time being productive with writing if I'd get a properly contoured keyboard with real keys. I used to type 70wpm/99%, but obviously never on this keyboard.

 

[Comshaw]

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Thank you, Mavis Beacon

Thats on my very clunky old Dell keyboard.

@Comshaw, my father was a two-fingered typist too, and typed really fast and accurately. He was a journalist, then a screenwriter.
He worked from home. I came home from school one day, expecting to hear the sound of his typing coming from his office, but the house was silent. I went into his room, and saw that he'd typed the single word
PAD
on a blank sheet of paper.
Hours later I found out he'd had a stroke, and had been rushed to hospital by my mother. He'd been trying to write "PART 2", but mistyped the "R", and then collapsed.

Sorry to hear that about your dad. I wonder how many over the years have been two-fingered typists? In many of the older movies, a police detective typing out a report is doing so with only two digits. I suspect there (is) was a whole faction of the population, who when they finally hit on their careers in life didn't have the training to type the way it was intended to be done. In my case, by the time I got to tapping on a keyboard I had physical limitations that prohibited going much faster than I do.

I forgot to say what I was using. My backlit keyboard for my PC looks a lot like the picture Erozetta posted, but not quite so worn. The E, S, A, D, N and M have the upper part of the letters worn off, as well as the three lower arrow keys (yeah, games) look like blobs.

I think though, Bramblethorn hit something that is of interest:
"...but usually the limiting factor is how quickly I can come up with the words I want to type."

While pure typing speed is great, a combination of typing and composition is actually the limiting factor for the speed of getting words to paper (so to speak) when writing a story. Which begs the question, do you compose as you type, or stop, compose and then type it out? I type slow enough that my brain is always way the hell and gone into the storyline as my fingers try to catch up. And that causes problems of its own, because sometimes I go back and read what I wrote and wonder why I skipped a word or passage. It's because my brain is working like an ADD squirrel and my fingers are plodding along like a half-asleep turtle.

Comshaw

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[AwkwardMD]

Slightly less than half speed on my phone. Not bad, but not as good as some!

 

[MrPixel]

I wonder how many over the years have been two-fingered typists?

I met a newspaper reporter 50-some years ago who two-fingered it. He was amazingly fast. Memory of the visit pegs his rate at 50-60 wpm.

Also, railroad station agents, whose main job was to issue "train orders" to passing trains, were invariably two-fingered. The "orders" were several sheets of tissue paper with carbons between, sometimes as many as 12 copies. They had to pound the absolute shit out of the keys to make it through all the copies. QWERTY touch-typing would not work at all given the poor strength of the two outside fingers.

 

[Comshaw]

I met a newspaper reporter 50-some years ago who two-fingered it. He was amazingly fast. Memory of the visit pegs his rate at 50-60 wpm.

Also, railroad station agents, whose main job was to issue "train orders" to passing trains, were invariably two-fingered. The "orders" were several sheets of tissue paper with carbons between, sometimes as many as 12 copies. They had to pound the absolute shit out of the keys to make it through all the copies. QWERTY touch-typing would not work at all given the poor strength of the two outside fingers.

Yeah I remember those damned carbon paper copies. When I was in the Army they didn't issue electric typewriters for the maintenance operations. They were all mechanical and most weren't in the best working order. Our equipment reports usually had 3 or 4 copies and you had to thwack the crap out of the keys to get them to go through. Sometimes it was worse when we had to reuse the carbon paper. Hit a key, back space, hit the key, back space, do it again. It was a real pisser when the letters mashed through the paper. Sometimes I'd submit them that way and get yelled at by the battalion maintenance officer for a messy report. "Yes Sir! I'll make sure they are better next time, Sir!" Unless I have to reuse that damned carbon paper!

Comshaw

 

[alohadave]

Surprisingly good on my phone except for the one word I completely mangoed.

 

[SimonDoom]

I don't know how you folks do it on the phone. I don't even like doing text messages on the phone.

 

[TheLobster]

I don't know how you folks do it on the phone. I don't even like doing text messages on the phone.

It’s all the ducking autocorrect, man.

 

[SimonDoom]

It’s all the ducking autocorrect, man.

Duck that.

 

[cw5523729]

I feel like this number is way, way higher than what it should be on a phone and not sure I believe its accuracy