Quick facts about typing speedĪn average typing speed is considered to be between 50 to 70 wpm, and the fastest people can reach is 180 wpm and above. With this definition the typing speed (wpm) is linked to the number of characters so it can be measured across different texts and languages. I embrace serendipitous happenings => Seven 5-letter words.I often drink coffee => Five 5-letter words.To remedy this, in the definition of typing speed (source below) a word is defined as 5 characters, including punctuation signs and spaces. This is not correct obviously because sentence #1 contains 21 characters v.s. Right? No, this is wrong.īased on this calculation a person taking a typing test with lots of sentences like #1 will perform almost twice as fast as a person taking a test containing lots of sentences like #2, because the words in sentence #2 are much longer than the ones in #1. Both sentences have 4 words and if you type them in one minute you type at 4 wpm. Sentence #2 has 4 words as well but is much longer with 35 characters including 3 spaces and 1 period. Sentence #1 has 4 words, 21 characters including 3 spaces and 1 period. Since words are not all the same size it would not be fair to measure someone’s typing speed counting the actual number of words taken randomly from a textbook. Most poeple know that typing speed on a computer keyboard is measured in words per minute (wpm).
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