Never Ending Curiosity

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 10:36 am

I'm curious, as usual, so what how fast(in wpm) do you type, ne?

Mr Sleep · Post by **Mr Sleep** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 10:45 am

About 28 at the last count, i have however increased speed since then could be around 35-40 now for all i know

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Happy Evil · Post by **Happy Evil** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 11:05 am

Using two fingers or one?

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 11:06 am

Not bad, Sleep.

I clocked myself at 65wpm this morning and that was before consuming any Dr. Pepper.

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 11:17 am

What is wpm? Something - per - minute?

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 11:21 am

Originally posted by C Elegans:
What is wpm? Something - per - minute?

wpm = words per minute

Shadow Sandrock · Post by **Shadow Sandrock** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 11:25 am

90 WPM ^_^;;

My friends on AIM get used to me dominating conversations

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 11:30 am

Originally posted by Shadow Sandrock:
90 WPM ^_^;;

My friends on AIM get used to me dominating conversations

I bet Random Shadow can type faster than you.

I've watched her type. It's hard to see her fingers when she's typing because she types so fast.

What I enjoy is when my computers suddenly gets extremely lagged and I type faster than my computer can process and put it on the screen. Because I automatically notice my typing errors, without having to see them, I also automatically back up and correct them. It's fun to watch the letters slowly appearing on the screen after I've finished typing the sentence and watch it back up every so often to correct a spelling mistake.

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 11:32 am

Originally posted by Sailor Saturn:
wpm = words per minute

Would make a huge difference what kind of text I was writing. A word like "N-(2-(4-(2-meathoxyphenyl)-1-piperazinyl)ethyl-N-(2-pyridyl)cyclohexanecarboxamide" (yes, I have a macro for that) of course takes much longer time to type than a short, common words. So what kind of text do you use to measure?

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 11:37 am

Originally posted by C Elegans:
Would make a huge difference what kind of text I was writing. A word like "N-(2-(4-(2-meathoxyphenyl)-1-piperazinyl)ethyl-N-(2-pyridyl)cyclohexanecarboxamide" (yes, I have a macro for that) of course takes much longer time to type than a short, common words. So what kind of text do you use to measure?

Well, I measured mine using a 280 word document I had written by hand. I typed it up, timing myself, then did a word count and calculated my speed. But the range of word size was probably about like this post I just typed. The longest word in the text I used for my measurement was "stereotypical."

C Elegans · Post by **C Elegans** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 12:09 pm

OK, I just tried with a medium difficulty text about logics. Result = 56 wpm.

I type faster if I sit up at a desk (as opposed to lying in bed with my laptop

), and also, if I'm writing in Swedish, I type a little bit faster.

I actually use the correct finger setting, I used to play with the old electrical type writer we had at home when I was a kid, and my mother was a secretary, so she taught me when I was about 5 or so. Then, as a young teenager, I started to write a lot of stuff like poetry, novels etc

and then the correct finger setting sort of felt natural.

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 12:17 pm

Originally posted by C Elegans:
I actually use the correct finger setting, I used to play with the old electrical type writer we had at home when I was a kid, and my mother was a secretary, so she taught me when I was about 5 or so. Then, as a young teenager, I started to write a lot of stuff like poetry, novels etc and then the correct finger setting sort of felt natural.

I learned how to type in 6th grade and was fastest in my class(even faster than the teacher

). But at the time, I hated writing. I've hated writing all my life. Then, last year, I started writing fanfics and now I love writing.

However, being able to type doesn't mean you can spell.

Me~
I can spell "antidisestablishmentarianism" with my eyes closed, but I can't spell "eyes" with my eyes open.

Edit: No, I did not misspell antidisestablishmentarianism and have to correct it. I just messed up my quote tags...

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Word · Post by **Word** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 1:08 pm

I can type me a might 36 wpm. Amazing, eh

Aegis · Post by **Aegis** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 1:11 pm

my last count was about 50-60 WPM. Thats without any typing lessons, or people showing me what to do. I learned how to type, incidently, by playing games like Warcraft 2, and inserting the cheats, after finishing the game of course!

All I know is that I can type "glitteringprizes" in less than 2 seconds now...

Yshania · Post by **Yshania** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 2:37 pm

Well the last time I was timed was during my RSA (about 16 years ago

) Under test, on an old fashioned clickety click typewriter I counted 40...(my little fingers were always too weak to press down the keys so out of habit - even on a keyboard - I amd a two finger one thumb typist

)

Shadow Sandrock · Post by **Shadow Sandrock** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 2:50 pm

@SS= Yeah I'm like that, I just know when I've made a typo and just know when to backspace somehow...

I meen, I doont make typoz daaat ofin do eyy///

Shadow Sandrock · Post by **Shadow Sandrock** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 2:51 pm

Originally posted by Aegis:
All I know is that I can type "glitteringprizes" in less than 2 seconds now...

Took me a little less than 2 seconds... dang that is a confusing word

Random Shadow · Post by **Random Shadow** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 3:07 pm

Originally posted by Shadow Sandrock:
90 WPM ^_^;;

UH.

Originally posted by Sailor Saturn:
I bet Random Shadow can type faster than you.

Actually...um...I can only type 75...dat's my fastest...so I can't type faster than him! Ayah! *hangs head*

Sailor Saturn · Post by **Sailor Saturn** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 3:10 pm

Originally posted by Random Shadow:
Actually...um...I can only type 75...dat's my fastest...so I can't type faster than him! Ayah! *hangs head*

We're also assuming that he's being honest.

I'm amazed you can only type 10 words per minute faster than me, but that just means I type faster than I thought I did.

nael · Post by **nael** » Thu Sep 20, 2001 6:30 pm

i have absolutely no clue...i can type very fast, btu with lots of errors as some of you may have noticed...i switch a lot of letters when typing. i have Word programmed to correct my more common errors, such as: teh, abotu, soem, anythign endign in "ng")
but boy can i type well with one hand now, after lots of practice...