1 of 1- Shangas
- Speed Champion
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- Registered: 17-3-2013
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What's Your Typing Speed in WPM?
Hey folks.
I'm applying for a job as an audiofile transcriber, and typing-speed is one of the most important attributes for this position.
Since this is a typewriter forum, I figured I'd ask, what is your typing-speed?
Right now, my average is about 95-100wpm. with 95% accuracy and better. In tests, the highest I've gotten is 107wpm with 99% accuracy.
My keyboard looked like this when I was done...
"Not Yet Published" - My History Blog
"I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit" - Sir Pelham Grenville "P.G." Wodehouse
"The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon" - Robert Benchley
- tatte
- Novice Typer
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- From: Vaasa, Finland
- Registered: 04-7-2013
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Re: What's Your Typing Speed in WPM?
What are you using to determine your WPM?
- Shangas
- Speed Champion
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- From: Melbourne, Australia
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Re: What's Your Typing Speed in WPM?
This, among other websites:
"Not Yet Published" - My History Blog
"I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit" - Sir Pelham Grenville "P.G." Wodehouse
"The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon" - Robert Benchley
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Thread Starter- ProfessorC30
- Platen Punisher
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- From: Arkansas, USA
- Registered: 20-4-2013
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Re: What's Your Typing Speed in WPM?
I haven't done a speed drill in a long time, but in high school (a long time ago), I regularly got 80wpm with 100% accuracy. Doubt I could do that even with practice now.
Clark
- beak
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- From: Qld Australia
- Registered: 24-3-2013
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Re: What's Your Typing Speed in WPM?
I've never done any timed test, but only note the gigantic variation in my typing speed. When alert at a machine I know, I can crash out text as fast as I can think it - almost, but at other times, when tired particularly, things go very slowly because of constant errors. Same with everyone, I guess.
My new computer has a very nasty keyboard - tiles such as in scrabble - and I constantly produce error after error on it. Thank God they are easy (if irritating) to correct on a word-processor.
Sincerely,
beak.
