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120wpm involves stenography
by __s 8y ago
120wpm involves stenography
- nerdponx 8y agoI've hit 115 a few times on Typeracer on a mechanical keyboard with light switches, on good runs where I don't make typos. I am far from the fastest typist I know. It's certainly possible to hit 120, depending on how you count WPM. Most people don't think in terms of the "strokes per 10 seconds" definition used in the article. The average word is not 5 letters.
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- tomsmeding 8y ago> The average word is not 5 letters. Taking "word" to mean "whitespace-delimited", the average word length in your comment is ~4.35 characters not counting the spaces. With spaces, that would be 5.35, which is pretty close to 5.
- nerdponx 8y agoInteresting. My only other explanation, then, would be the technical nature of the typing sample, discussed in another comment thread here.
- tom_ 8y agoI typed at 105wpm when I was 20. QWERTY keyboard, no training, just six fingers, one thumb, youth on my side, and a lot of practice. If you can deploy 20% more digits, and have an expert on hand during the early stages to give you advice on form and technique, then I'd expect 120wpm to be attainable...