Is it possible for someone to type 200 words per minute?

My aunt claims to be able to, but I doubt it, especially given that she is old and computer illiterate.

[Apothos]

Maybe she learned on a typewriter?

Originally posted by Apothos
Maybe she learned on a typewriter?

I'm asking if it's even possible.

[Apothos]

Originally posted by Quaoar
I'm asking if it's even possible.

ofc it is.

[Deffeh]

given time i reckon i could

im prolly about 120, 130 at the minute

[SilverSmoke]

I can beat that easily.

[xtothez]

Dead easy.

'Ctrl-V'

[mbushell]

I'll time myself later, i'm pretty confident i can type around 200 :-)

[mbushell]

Originally posted by xtothez
'Ctrl-V'

moron

[Gayle29uk]

Originally posted by Deffeh
given time i reckon i could

im prolly about 120, 130 at the minute

Originally posted by mbushell
I'll time myself later, i'm pretty confident i can type around 200 :-)

ROTFLMAO, If you even make HALF that I'll be amazed. I used to work for the RAF and there was only one person in the 120wpm+ typing pool and she'd spent 30 years as a PA before marrying her husband. If you seriously believe you can type 200wpm you're in for a shock

[Nodrog]

I can type over 230 words per minute using my specially designed unix-enabled dvorak keyboard which includes 237 function keys mapped to various common words and phrases in the English language, allowing me to rapidly maximise my optimal typing potential.

[Mirai]

I think nod needs a beer.

[Mong]

Surely "I" is a word? :-)

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I thought the best way to measure speed was CHARACTERS per min, not words? Then there was a simple formula to work out the wpm.

M.

[xtothez]

Originally posted by xtothez
Dead easy.

'Ctrl-V'

Originally posted by mbushell
moron

It seems you missed my point:

Originally posted by Mong
Surely "I" is a word? :-)

I thought the best way to measure speed was CHARACTERS per min, not words? Then there was a simple formula to work out the wpm.

Anyone claiming more than 200 words a minute is cheating somehow. Either by using incredibly short words which gives no reflection of their true typing ability in real situations, or using some shortcuts like special keyboards and button combinations (lo ctrl-v).

I thought replies of "moron" were considered too pointless and un-necessary even for GD. Guess I was wrong.

[Smugs]

200 wpm i doubt it unless you leave mistakes in every word.

[Gayle29uk]

To claim a typing speed you really need a minimum 95% accuracy, on top of that if I remember right the definition of a word (for typing) is 5 characters and a control character (space/enter). 200wpm for anyone on here is ludicrous, 40-45 is average for most admin peeps, 60-80 is fast, anything above 80 is very impressive.

[BuddhistPunk]

I worked as a slave trader AKA recruitment consultant for about 3 years, in that time I must have seen hundreds of secretaries from 16 year old school leavers through to 60 year old uber-secretaries.

The fastest I ever saw was 170 wpm with 99% accuracy - this same person could consistently get 100% accuracy at about 150wpm.

I doubt 200 wpm is possible with a decent accuracy level, although with the advent of spell checkers this isnt that much of an issue anymore.

PS. IIRC wpm is calculated on the fact that the average english word has 6 characters, so type "I" over and over doesnt count :-)

[Starbucks]

Originally posted by Gayle28uk
To claim a typing speed you really need a minimum 95% accuracy, on top of that if I remember right the definition of a word (for typing) is 5 characters and a control character (space/enter). 200wpm for anyone on here is ludicrous, 40-45 is average for most admin peeps, 60-80 is fast, anything above 80 is very impressive.

we could always test how quickly people here can type using the convinient 60 second rule

Originally posted by Mong
Surely "I" is a word? :-)

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I thought the best way to measure speed was CHARACTERS per min, not words? Then there was a simple formula to work out the wpm.

M.

"Words" in this sense are 5 characters, spaces included. My keyboarding teacher (this is how I know this stuff, I'm taking Keyboarding for an easy half-credit) took a class with the fastest typer in the world. He did around 250 GWAM (gross words a minute. I always keep thinking of Guam). That guy has died by now, but there are probably other people who can do 200 or more.

By the way, my teacher does 75 GWAM, and I can do 46.

[Mong]

Originally posted by xtothez
It seems you missed my point:

...

I thought replies of "moron" were considered too pointless and un-necessary even for GD. Guess I was wrong.

It seems you missed my point. Your spurious insult can be considered rejected, repackaged, and rebounded. Right back at you. Moron

[edit] Ooops, now I see YOUR point. Ignore my "moron", it's now directed at somebody else [/edit]

I WAS pointing out that people claiming more than 200 wpm probably assumed that typing "as" 100 times was acceptable.

I guess the irony was lost on GD!

M.

Well I type with one finger, and I have to watch the keyboard when I'm doing it.

[SilverSmoke]

ah, it's about words..


no i can't do that

Originally posted by Lord Boredom
Well I type with one finger, and I have to watch the keyboard when I'm doing it.

I used to do that, except I typed with four. Then I started taking the keyboarding class, and now I can type much faster, without looking at the keyboard. But I still don't do it the way I should.

[Starbucks]

Originally posted by Lord Boredom
Well I type with one finger, and I have to watch the keyboard when I'm doing it.

do you twirl your finger around the keyboard with you tounge out your mouth.

yes.

and what the hell was all that about the other day in #********?

[JammyJim]

Originally posted by Gayle28uk
To claim a typing speed you really need a minimum 95% accuracy, on top of that if I remember right the definition of a word (for typing) is 5 characters and a control character (space/enter). 200wpm for anyone on here is ludicrous, 40-45 is average for most admin peeps, 60-80 is fast, anything above 80 is very impressive.

i read these same figures in the times under the "secretarial job" section bit. basically if you type over 70-80 then you will get bumped up to senior level rapidly if your other skills fit the profile.

i can hit about 100ish once ive 'warmed' up and i know what im writing. i guess i can push above that to 110wpm when im full flow but anything higher......my fingers just canot move that fast heh




(tests were done on a proper 'test your wpm thing' we had at school. idea was to teach people how to type. you needed 100% accuracy and it was a long sentence or story that had to be typed out)

[Smugs]

I can do about 55wpm may be 60 on a good day .

[Leshy]

Just tested it, was at 85wpm with 97% accuracy. A longer test with much more special characters etc gave 81wpm at 96% accuracy.

[Bunga]

I took a typing course once, it took six weeks. At the end of the course I was up at 127 gwpm. Its probably lower now, but 200 is doable if you type a lot.

[Snurx]

I doubt i could do over a 100, but i have never tested...exept when i was little, and that was on a piece off paper. (School)
I think i had pretty good scores.

[Cmdr_Cyrax]

More than 3 words a second?
Doubt it.....

Seek proof plz..........

[mens]

where do you find these word count programs?
With a timer and all.
I'm curious how fast I can write.

[Leshy]

Originally posted by mens
where do you find these word count programs?

With magic

[mens]

yeah well, I thought maybe you guys knew about any good ones.

[Gayle29uk]

Originally posted by Iniluki
You'd be surprised a lot of people on here are general computer people, so they will be used to typing all day. If I know what i'm typing I can probably cap about 80ish wpm. On those annoying typing speed tests you find on the net I only get about 50-60 cos I have to sit there and read the damn thing first.

So am I, I've done my fair share of typing and I can't really claim anything above 80wpm. I'm dead serious when I say 100wpm is professional typist speed and anyone who's claiming to type at those sort of speeds effectively has to be a touch typist so reading and typing at the same time shouldn't affect the speed. If you can't do that then there's no way you're that fast.

[Phang]

at one point, i was under severe stress and i wrote a few lines at probably about 170-200wpm with NO errors; however, this was a fluke. Also understand that said text included the word 'slaughter' three times, twice in conjunction with 'responsible' and 'Microsoft Paint'...

My 13 yr old sister can type 110 wpm. School kids these days are required to take a keyboarding class at an early age. For the record, I can type about 50 wpm. \o/

[LHC]

I'm on 53 wpm apparently.

according to this

[LHC]

You may also be interested to read this

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.

[mens]

I got Gross WPM: 67,95
with accuracy 96,33
436 keystrokes.

I thought I sucked.
I'm sure I'll get above 100 if I practice a bit.

I can type about 1000 words a minute. Literally I can. About 2 months ago I typed 3491 words in 3 mins and then 2000 every minute after that for half an hour. I'll find the saved page on my hdd somewhere as this topic came up on another forum I visit (:

[Starbucks]

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There we go

That is 220 Words, that took about 1 minute

sorted

[Gayle29uk]

Originally posted by Starbucks
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That is 220 Words, that took about 1 minute

It's not as many if you have a 64 bit word length.

/me hopes someone somewhere understood that...

[Starbucks]

Originally posted by Gayle28uk
It's not as many if you have a 64 bit word length.

/me hopes someone somewhere understood that...

i did

and dont piss on meh bombfire :-(

[Nodrog]

Originally posted by Gayle28uk
So am I, I've done my fair share of typing and I can't really claim anything above 80wpm. I'm dead serious when I say 100wpm is professional typist speed and anyone who's claiming to type at those sort of speeds effectively has to be a touch typist so reading and typing at the same time shouldn't affect the speed. If you can't do that then there's no way you're that fast.

Not really. I can get over 80 words per minute when I try, but I dont look at the screen the whole time when I'm deliberately going 'fast'. Ive always found it easier to look at the screen, and 'digest' a chunk of about 10-12 words, type them without reading anything else, then fetch another 10-12 words from the screen. Typing tests are absolutely horrible, because making even one mistake completely throws you off - especially on the ones that dont move the cursor until you press the right key. One mistake ends up being about 5-7.

[Belgarath The Sorcerer]

I just did a few online tests, averaged 1 word a second, 70 words a minute. Accuracy wasn't too good though, I was about 85% inaccurate on all tests, although I'm far, far too used to correcting mistakes on the fly.