What's your typing speed?

[manpe 10,861]

Does anyone else need a warm up time of about 3-4 tests before they start hitting good speeds?

My best results have come from the 1st, 2nd or 3rd try of the day. After that I'm usually hopeless.

[capriccioso 2,545]

BluesMaster is awful at this.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

wow, I did not expect 25 pages of post about typing! LOL I type about 80 words a minute according to the test but in all fairness this is the first time I have sat down at a computer in a month! I have used my iPad but that doesn't count as real typing since it more like texting. I found the test to be hard for me because I don't usually type what I am reading on the computer screen. I can type from a hard copy sitting next to me with out looking at the screen with a fair amount of accuracy but it threw me off to look at the screen and type below it and not be able to see the whole "sentence". I also have to say I would have done better if it wasn't just gibberish. Actual sentences would have been easier because some of those words just didn't flow well together and it threw off the rhythm! I know... excuses, excuses but at least I didn't say I was old!

How many of you type with out looking at the keys?

How many have your hands in the "proper" positions?

I am just curious because my husband and father both type with about 6 fingers and not their whole hands. My husband is very quick at typing but I have never understood how. I took typing in high school (no not keyboarding) back when there wasn't even a correction ribbon on the darn thing. The keys actually took effort to push and they covered the keys on us!

My 'touch-typing' is me just using two fingers most of the time, and sometimes a third when I'm typing quite quickly. However when I am looking at the keyboard I type a heck of a lot faster, so this test favours those who have the ability to photographically recall a dozen or so words and then look at the keyboard and type them, or those who have better spatial diffusion with their finger positions.

[manpe 10,861]

Shamone guys, don't forget you still have your race for 3rd place... that's so cute

[OneMoSalah 8,885]

Shamone guys, don't forget you still have your race for 3rd place... that's so cute

They won't catch me, I am too fucking good

I've not even done a test since like 4 days ago when Cap was struggling to get beyond 110.

[capriccioso 2,545]

I'll try tomorrow.

[OneMoSalah 8,885]

I'll try tomorrow.

If you beat my score I will have to step it up and go for 120!!

[capriccioso 2,545]

If you beat my score I will have to step it up and go for 120!!

I have a cunning plan...

[OneMoSalah 8,885]

I have a cunning plan...

If its to try when I'm asleep I already know Point is I won't be going to sleep until at least 4.30 am each day so you will have less time

[capriccioso 2,545]

If its to try when I'm asleep I already know Point is I won't be going to sleep until at least 4.30 am each day so you will have less time

Its as cunning as an especially cunning fox that's recently been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University.

[BluesChick 1,260]

Could you give an exact figure, BluesChick?

Sorry, Cap I'll have to forfeit I have been traveling for the last month and just came home. I have a feeling my typing skills will be the pits after a 14 hour flight and a 12 hour time change!