How Fast Can You Type

Do you touch type and how fast can you type?

Touch typing is a skill I learned in the 7th grade. They actually had classes in it back then. My class used manual typewriters.This one class has helped me enormously. In business I type all the time. I probably can type about 60 wpm.Well worth putting in the effort to learn this skill.

How fast can you type in WPM?

After memorizing the keyboard and proper finger placement (and which fingers for which keys), you can practice efficiently by applying scientific skill improvement principles (some you can learn from TED @YT) to reach about 90 WPM fast.For now, I’m thinking on what to improve next…Is it worth it to practice alternating between left and right (depending on which hand is to press next) for spacebar and shift? Or is the speed improvement too insignificant for the effort? And what’s the best type of keyboard to use?I just did 120 with 100% accuracy a few minutes ago after watching Brooke Schwartz’s video. Excellent skill and experience in the vid, maybe give the left pinky the role it deserves to increase accuracy further, but that was 2 years ago. She’s probably improved a lot now. Brooke, If you’re seeing this, any ideas to share?

How fast can you type Chinese?

I still remember that day, some thirty years ago, when I attended a computer show in Taiwan where people were showing off how they could get their PCs to accept Chinese input and actually display the Chinese! What a revelation! Ever since then, numerous methods have been devised to take this decidedly non-alphabetical language into the digital realm. Some passed on, some stayed.About 10 years later, I learned to type Chinese - for the sole purpose of communicating with my Taiwanese girlfriend. I chose an input method by the name of Eten, not because it was the fastest or best, but because it was the easiest to pickup for an English minded person like me. I never counted my speed, but if I type mundane things, where the computer can mostly guess the correct character for every combination I make, then I’d guesstimate myself at roughly 60 words per minute. On the other hand, if things get complicated and I have to select characters here and there for every pronunciation-combo that I type (with Chinese, there are always multiple characters that share the same pronunciation), then that can quickly drop to 30, or even less.There are superior input methods that feature exact combinations for every Chinese character, thus enabling proficient users to type at much greater speeds, but those would require a far more intimate knowledge of the language than I possess, and far more practice. They are kind of popular, but most native Chinese do not use them due to the learning curve. So if you want to know how fast a regular guy who types pretty well can type, I’d say around 60wpm.

How fast can you type English?

My current speed is 80 WPM but I am looking forward to reach a 100+ WPM by this year.Actually, I was a hunt-and-peck typist before. My average typing speed was only 35–40 WPM.I tried a typing program, it’s called Typesy. After a month of practicing, I reached my current speed.

As a pianist, how fast do you type?

All 9th graders in my high school were required to take one year of typing. I can’t remember how often the class ran each week, but I do remember that we learned how to type on an IBM Selectric typewriter. We needed to be able to type 30 words per minute by December, and 60 words per minute by June in order to pass the class.I had started playing the piano on my own when I was 2, started lessons at 3, and by the time I was in 9th grade, I probably had 7 years of lessons under my belt.By December of my freshman year, I could type 70 words per minute and by June I was around 110. Sometimes the typewriter would jam up because I was going so fast.We had typing competitions in our classroom - one side of the class was one team and the other side of the class was the other team. I was eventually banned from participating in these competitions because I would always win for my team.I vividly remember those competitions when I would get “into the zone” and was processing the words so fast it was like I wasn’t even thinking. My hands would just fly but time seemed to slow down. I can’t quite explain it but I was going so fast it felt like I was going slow.I am much older now with 3 children (24, 19, and 9) and a few weeks ago they called me downstairs because the two older ones had just taken an online typing test. They had heard the stories of my 9th grade typing superpowers and challenged me with their scores of 68 wpm and 79 wpm. I haven’t done speed typing in ages and I was actually a little nervous. But it was all for naught as I ended up impressing all 3 of them with my 100 words per minute.At the age of 53, I still “got it.” And I still play the piano.

Do you type faster on your phone or on your PC?

Based on some sample data I collected and conversations with colleagues and friends.Most people can type between 30–50 words per minute on a PC/laptop with some practice. People who are good at typing can probably reach 70–100 words per minute (the best typists can reach much higher than that)On the phone, actual “typing” won’t get you close to those speeds. But if you are using predictive text typing or speech to text, you could possibly go much faster (accuracy may suffer and depends on how well you can make it work)So, in summary, most people can with some practice generally type faster on the PC, but in the near future, that difference might not be much especially if speech to text recognition and other techniques get really accurate (Note: These could work on both PC and phone)