HOW FAST CAN YOU TYPE?!
A question you might just be curious about,
A question that makes your fingers tickle,
A question that makes you question yourself.
Obviously i'm exaggerating, fact of the matter is it doesn't really matter how fast you type, most people who are relatively young can type quite fast... Right? I mean it's not like it's a skill you have to develop by countless hours of hard labor that makes your muscle ache and sweat drip by liters...
Typing is just a matter of how much time you have spent actually writing and how much really just is your natural speed, some people write really slow even though they do like 50 billion words a day on they're skype, facebook, twitter, etc.
Still a question i have in mind is, what is a good speed? Not what is AMAZING but really what is a good speed for a modern person who types in ENGLISH.
I honestly don't think it really matters but i guess there is some use to it what i've actually found on the webs is a website which allows you to test your speed capacity!
It's called 10fastfingers and it's completely for free and it even has a ranking system which let's you see where you stand comparatively to other people typing, which is quite great.
You can even make an ACCOUNT and follow on your progress and set high scores! FUN!
Let's give it a go!
So here's my score doing it for the first and only time TODAY, also the computer i'm using right now is one i use VERY rarely. They keyboard is old and very bad in general, however, i have however probably taken like a hundred of theses tests in total! What i find interesting though is that over taking about 100 tests, i genuinely have not become faster... I'm sorry to say to me personally the website did not work for actually bettering of my typing. My typing has always been pretty fast, that's what you get for being a computer oriented person, i.e. a computer geek.
Over the days of doing this test i also realized that i have a very specific average speed, which is basically a 100 WPM (words per minute), the highest i went was about 126, i can't recall if i made a lot of mistakes though. However, it really is surprising how often i hit exactly 100 or 99, it was literally over half of the time, which is simply fascinating from a statistical point of view.
Either way, whether you care about your typing speed/correctness or not, you should give this a go, Also let me know in the comments below what was your speed!