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Loading ...Going to tease Jeremy Wright a bit here and hopefully he gets a chuckle out of this. The following wouldn’t surprise me, but I absolutely had to have misunderstood Jeremy earlier when we were talking on Skype. Briefly we hit on the subject of typing speed and I thought I heard him say he could type 250 words per minute (wpm). I’m sure he really meant 50 wpm, heck I’ll even accept 100 wpm … didn’t you, Jeremy? I just did some checking on that and the international average reading speed is 250 wpm, see Turboread:
The international average reading speed is accepted to be about 250 words per minute.
Jeremy, please correct me on this because if you can type 250 words per minute than you would be the fastest typist in the world and I think in addition to your accolades as being the first (and probably last, it seems) blogger to auction himself off on eBay then the Guiness Book needs to hear from you ASAP. Stop writing that book on blogging and write a book on powertyping! The fastest typist honor (someone please correct me if I’m wrong on this) currently goes out to Barbara Blackburn who attains speeds of 170 wpm and has attained a top speed of 212 wpm:
Typing, Fastest. Mrs. Barbara Blackburn of Salem, Oregon can maintain 150 wpm for 50 min (37,500 key strokes) and attains a speed of 170 wpm using the Dvorak Simplified Keyboard (DSK) system. Her top speed was recorded at 212 wpm. Source: Norris McWhirter, ed. (1985), THE GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS, 23rd US edition, New York: Sterling Publishing Co., Inc.
I am lucky if I can type 50 words per minute accurately but inaccurately I can probably do upwards of 80-90 words per minute. I can’t even imagine seeing 200 wpm, this Barbara Blackburn must literally have smoke pouring from her Dvorak keyboard. Jeremy must have meant reading, not typing, I have to have this all wrong. I must have misunderstood.
Seriously, BTW, how fast for those of you reading this can you type? How many words per minute? There’s some cool games online and off that will help you test this. Here’s a couple links you might try to check this out
- blackdog4kids - online, free
- Typer Shark - online, java
- Go TypeRacer go!
- Apple G5 stopped in their tracks over G5 speed claims
- Have fun sharpening your typing skills
- Ever rated your writing?
- Companies and/or websites requiring a phone call to cancel / quit service
- I don’t care if Sponge Bob is gay
Here was my email response to David
I love a good tease, but in this case I was basically correct. I type insanely fast. Not sure it’s 250, but I’ve broken 220.
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At my last place we had videos of me breaking 220
I’ve never entered any competitions, but it’s not like it’s a continuous speed for massive stretches. In reality when I’m writing longer pieces I tend to basically average it out to 50wpm including breaks, corrections, editing and research.
So a 1000 word piece, including research and everything, will take me about 20 minutes.
Feel free to poke fun, but no, I don’t think I’m anywhere near as good as the fastest typists in the world, because their speed accounts for mistakes in typing. Something MS Office helps a great deal with as it corrects the 100 most common mistakes I make.
I’d never even break 100 (adjusted -5wpm/error) without Office lol.
If you want, you can post it and I can link to it, but most of my friends have regularly seen me break 150-175
I’m gonna go take a typing test now and see how fast I am right now, unadjusted.
I’ll let you know.
Using: http://blackdog4kids.com/games/word/typing.html
Percentage Accuracy : 41%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 58%
Characters per minute : 1044 cpm
Characters per second : 16 cps
Words per minute : 190 wpm
Words per second : 2 wps
Total Speed status : Too Good
Overall Accuracy : Bad
Not sure how accurate that test is, but as you can see my accuracy blows. Mostly that’s caps (which Office corrects) and ‘teh’ type errors.
So, yeah, that’s what that test spits out, but it depends on the text, my mood, stress level, time of day, etc.
Hope that helps. Maybe in Feb we can have a go. See if I can keep my cool and break 200wpm
Comment by Jeremy C. Wright — December 21, 2004 @ 5:02 pm PST
Wow, I wish I could type that fast. I have to blog this in person. I have my DV100 mini-camera so I can capture video and audio (of that frenetic tapping) of the event. You should work on the accuracy, Jeremy and take on Barbara and her Dvorak keyboard.
Comment by TDavid — December 21, 2004 @ 5:15 pm PST
Biggest problem with typing tests, is you can’t:
a) Read what you’re typing at the same time
b) That one doesn’t let you hit ctrl+leftarrow, which is the quickest way to correct words (at least for me)
160, 0 errors… stupid notebook keyboards.
Comment by Nathan Wong — December 22, 2004 @ 3:01 pm PST
I think the same speed as I type
Of course Nathan and Jeremy just blow me away in MSN conversations, because they both type comfortably what I could only dream of typing. I type the same speed whether or not I’m simply typing comfortably or when I’m trying to go super-speed. Actually I tried it a few times and every time I managed to get the same one. Of course, this’d be easier on a notebook keyboard for me, than this keyboard, and the only inaccuracies were due to my brain just for some reason typing the last letter of the word first, and little things like that.
Percentage Accuracy : 96%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 3%
Characters per minute : 459 cpm
Characters per second : 7 cps
Words per minute : 88 wpm
Words per second : 1 wps
Total Speed status :
Overall Accuracy : Too Good
Comment by James — December 29, 2004 @ 4:10 am PST
Percentage Accuracy : 100%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 0%
Characters per minute : 376 cpm
Characters per second : 6 cps
Words per minute : 72 wpm
Words per second : 1 wps
Total Speed status : Too Good
Overall Accuracy : Absolutely Perfect
Comment by Chris — March 24, 2005 @ 6:42 am PST
thats neat……cough nerds cough
Comment by willis — March 31, 2005 @ 11:35 am PST
[…] It’s Saturday and if you’re working isn’t it time for a break? Fellow writers who want to improve your word per minute (WPM) typing skill during break time, give Word Shoot a try. Unless of course you are that cunning typist and B5media CEO Jeremy Wright [Hmm interview] who once commented here claiming that there were videos of him cresting the 220 wpm mark. Get those videos up on YouTube, Jeremy, that could rank right up there with the Numa Numa guy (below) or Chad Vader. […]
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