Typing speed

[Hank]

You all just need to play videogames in which you need to type fast or you die. I owe my typing skills to MapleStory, I'm sure (sending messages to my guildmates while grinding mobs only gives you a few seconds at a time).

[Smiral]

Noir said
Ugh, home row. PTSD from junior high typing class triggered. It clearly didn't help me very much, we just had a teacher who would literally sit there and vocally instruct us which keys to press in a monotone voice. "A, space, a, space, aaa, space..."

I only passed keyboarding class in middle school because I was on the internet like 90% of the time.

[Alex]

97 on a school keyboard

[LightAlysCity]

Yeah; I think 75 is as good as it gets for me.

[Seba]

For anyone bitc- complaining about how it's more difficult to type random words rather than things that make sense, I typically use this instead. It pulls from classic literature. It's also fun to read bits of Tom Sawyer and the likes. Once I got a Sherlock Holmes snippet.

Sample of the test

[Jorick]

[idlehands]

All that cybering paid off

[Hank]

Having glanced at the name of the speed test website we're using, I would like to point out to all the lay-dees here that I do indeed have 10 very fast, very skilled fingers.

[Esper]

105 WPM.

[Jorick]

idlehands said
All that cybering paid off

Indeed. Where else would one learn to type so fast without ever taking keyboarding courses? I certainly never took a keyboarding class.

[idlehands]

Unf, pm me bby, type it so fast it hurts

[Griever]

I made a few mistakes unfortunately, but not many. Btw, this typing test is kind of unrealistic because if you had a job inputting stuff into the computer database, you wouldn't be typing competitively and you'd probably have to keep looking at a piece of paper every so often. Pretty sure the people who beat me and Hank must be asian.

[Mtntopview]

70 WPM

[Cpt Toellner]

Not even going to try.

#huntandpeck

[Doivid]

Halo said
3x10^8 words per second.

wot

just do the screenshot option, dude.

[Queen Raidne]

59 wpm
63 wpm
60 wpm

Using Seba's alternate test,
58 wpm (blegh, Dickens. Stop using "illumines", "obscurity", "indefatigable", "assiduity", "multifarious" and paragraph-long run-on sentences! Talk about verbosity.)
54 wpm (Anne of Green Gables. Why are all classic books full of run-on sentences? Seriously!)
57 wpm (Ah, Daniel Defoe, JotPY. Two sentences. The first is arguably not a run-on sentence. Arguably.)
52 wpm (Okay, I can't complain about this one. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Isabella Bird)

[Emma]

30....

I feel only shame.

[Alex]

redid it now on my home keyboard

[Foster]

IIRC I did about 35 WPM when I was in middle-school.

[mbl]

Alex said
redid it now on my home keyboard