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All my evidence is anecdotal (though confirmed with quantitative testing) but my sense of the "average user" is college friends of mine who do not program, and
by jp3 7y ago
All my evidence is anecdotal (though confirmed with quantitative testing) but my sense of the "average user" is college friends of mine who do not program, and a broad selection of people seem to be able to hit 80-90WPM on the short tests.
It used to be a that a "professional typist" was requested to hit 75WPM, and search engines still return that datum despite being a laughable number in the field now.
I do not think any of my programming friends/colleagues type slower than 100WPM, and many can burst between 130-150WPM. Though based on your appellation of "super-gurus," there are definitely a few who fit that category, so selection bias could well be tugging my perceived average northwards.
- cjbprime 7y agoI'm one of the 130-150WPM qwerty burst programmer typists, but a quick round of Typeracer at work showed that none of my programmer coworkers at the time were near to hitting 100WPM, so I expect you're overestimating the average speed. Also, Typeracer itself claims my 133WPM average is around the 99.99th percentile speed for registered Typeracer users. That's surprisingly high too.