Whats your max wpm in typing?
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·February 2, 2025orev
It typically takes more time to decide what I need to type, and once that’s done actual typing speed isn’t a factor.
Other than bragging rights or doing transcription, does it really matter anymore?
sshine
100 WPM at 98% accuracy.
It used to be 80 WPM. Then I learned Dvorak, which also boosted my QWERTY +20 WPM.
Now I switched to a split keyboard, and I'm slowly gaining my typing speed. I went from 20 WPM to 65 WPM in two weeks. It's not supposed to make me faster, it's just a nice hack with extra thumb keys and layers to lower travel speed for those things you do a lot.
account-5
Never counted but I can touch type accurately until I become conscious I'm doing it at which point I get in the way. Generally I start to appreciate how good I'm doing, at which point my 7 year becomes better than me.
solardev
About 120 to 130 wpm, depending on the keyboard and what I'm typing. 95% ish accuracy, but it doesn't really matter since everything is autocorrected or autocompleted anyway.
Been typing since I was like 5 or 6 years old though, first Mavis Beacon and then IRC and Everquest and other MMOs. Voice chat wasn't that popular back then.
lycos
If I check on monkeytype it's around 130wpm but as others have said it really depends on what you are typing.
(for what it's worth I learned to touch type on an old typewriter decades ago, however my wpm was much slower then as the typewriter would lock up if I typed too fast)
ai-christianson
Right if I'm doing a typing test, I can do 150 on a good day with good posture and being warmed up. Typing tests are really picky about accuracy --if you have a single typo, it'll kill your WPM and they typically won't let you continue without correcting it to be exact, plus you're usually reading & retyping exactly what you see including every bit of punctuation and exact capitalization.
But if I'm typing casually, e.g. a discord chat or certain types of code, it's much faster. I imagine the other fast typers here can reach insane speeds in these contexts. The way I can describe it is you have clusters of letters where your fingers hit the keys at almost the same time, and it no longer sounds like distinct key hits.
Edit: the keyboard selection matters a lot too. I'm nowhere near as fast on an IBM Model M as I am on a modern laptop (chiclet?) keyboard. I'm a little slower on a thinkpad than I am on a Dell or Mac laptop. A real typewriter would be the slowest as the metal can get all jammed up --that's a unique skill in and of itself.
deskr
Depends if its sesquipedalian, onomatopoeia or supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
kotaKat
90-130wpm from anything from the keyboard on my desk to an iPad Pro w/ Magic Keyboard propped up on my knee in the car.
We need more high WPM in austere environment tests that aren't just a flat desk ;)
teeray
I top out at about 100-110 WPM, but it really depends on what I’m typing. That’s basically “transcribing printed, boring, regular English.”
LorenDB
I tested the other day and was about 84 WPM IIRC. Of course, your WPM is meaningless if you make dozens of errors.
(For the record, I don't type perfectly accurately but make probably no more than 10 errors per minute.)
qup
80-120wpm @ 100% accuracy (fixing mistakes)
Faster for normal texts, slower with punctuation/code/etc
theturtle
About 120 in the old days, and I type "wrong."
stonecharioteer
I've plateaued at 85, occassionally reach 100. I'm happy since I only learned to touch type at 32.
Do you type with insane speed? whats your speed?