I have no idea. I type with 5-9 fingers and never had any typing classes, so I think I get about thirty words a minute or so (rough guess). I can do speed reading though.

On an IRC chat room a couple years ago I was accused of being a bot.

120? damn that's fast...

I dunno, I guess I'm around 60 or 70 words a min... maybe more, not sure.

Anyone got a link to a Java or Javascript speed test website that we could all use to test ourselves?

Found one at: http://www.cyberaddicts.net/TYPETEST.shtml

I'll post my score in a couple of mins... gotta warm my fingers up

Here are my results:

Percentage Accuracy : 100%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 0.34843205574912894%
Characters per minute : 287 cpm
Characters per second : 4 cps
Words per minute : 58 wpm
Words per second : 0 wps
Total Speed status : Good
Overall Accuracy : Absolutely Spot on

hmmm... not as good as I hoped... but my accuracy was deadly, and it was my first try

Percentage Accuracy : 70.74829931972789%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 29.25170068027211%
Characters per minute : 147 cpm
Characters per second : 2 cps
Words per minute : 31 wpm
Words per second : 0 wps
Total Speed status : Poor
Overall Accuracy : Poor

Grrrr.....'usually'....

No wonder, at twenty words per minute you have ample time to spell check. Oh no, what am I doing, I'm comparing type speeds and deriving status from it, argh!

Results for pjpowell

Percentage Accuracy : 100%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 0%
Characters per minute : 279 cpm
Characters per second : 4 cps
Words per minute : 57 wpm
Words per second : 0 wps
Total Speed status : Okay
Overall Accuracy : Absolutely Spot on


But these are probably not completely accurate. I cannot touchtype and only really use a few fingers. I can type faster if I don't have to actually read something and take my eyes off the keyboard. At work I have often been accused of just tapping random keys. Mostly when typing emails or into messageboards you don't actually have to read the words first. If I could memorise that whole piece of text and then type it I could probably reach another 10 wpm.

In order to test this I restarted the test again but typed what I would be typing into this window instead. Please note the Accuracy amount. Better than I expected seeing as I didn't type any of what was written for the test.

Percentage Accuracy : 16.923076923076923%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 83.07692307692308%
Characters per minute : 325 cpm
Characters per second : 5 cps
Words per minute : 66 wpm
Words per second : 1 wps
Total Speed status : Good
Overall Accuracy : Very Bad

Percentage Accuracy : 100%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 0%
Characters per minute : 208 cpm
Characters per second : 3 cps
Words per minute : 43 wpm
Words per second : 0 wps
Total Speed status : Okay
Overall Accuracy : Absolutely Spot on

I don't know the typing method, I just type with 4 or 5 fingers... And as pjpowell, I type much faster when I don't have to look at the screen and at the keyboad at the same time. Let me try again, typing something out of my mind instead.

Okay, I get 56 wpm when I type without looking at the screen. Better, but only half Froggies' speed... !

120 words per minute with at least a 95% accuracy.
130 words per minute with an 80% accuracy..

sometimes even faster....*sigh*

I've been kicked for flooding by a bot because I type too fast..and it thought I was copy and pasting...you know how annoying that is?

Percentage Accuracy : 88.7218045112782%
Percentage Inaccuracy : 11.278195488721804%
Characters per minute : 133 cpm
Characters per second : 2 cps
Words per minute : 29 wpm
Words per second : 0 wps
Total Speed status : Poor
Overall Accuracy : Okay

Actually, I'm surprised I did THAT well! lol.
I'm terrible at typing, but I am actually faster when I'm just typing from my head and not reading it.

Take the test, Elfie!