Comments on: Watch out Mavis Beacon, here comes Jeremy Wright!

By: Have fun sharpening your typing skills » Make You Go Hmm

Have fun sharpening your typing skills » Make You Go Hmm — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 23:25:15 +0000

[…] 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. […]

By: willis

willis — Thu, 31 Mar 2005 16:35:13 +0000

thats neat……cough nerds cough

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 24 Mar 2005 11:42:23 +0000

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

By: James

James — Wed, 29 Dec 2004 09:10:00 +0000

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

By: Nathan Wong

Nathan Wong — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 08:01:00 +0000

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.

By: TDavid

TDavid — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:15:00 +0000

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.

By: Jeremy C. Wright

Jeremy C. Wright — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:02:00 +0000

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