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| Lakithunder Posts: 1191/1284 |
Your speed was: 91wpm.
Congratulations! You made no mistakes, practice does make perfect. And I forgot to copy and paste the damn essay. Yay. It was the one about a funeral and a captain. Yes, I thought WTF too. |
| Trax Posts: 64/77 |
Your speed was: 73466 wpm.
Congratulations! You made no mistakes, practice does make perfect. If you add a space after the block of text, you won't get errors. I do 44 wpm if I take the test seriously. Most of the time, I have to watch the keyboard, so copying a text is quite a task. And I always correct my errors... |
| Danielle Posts: 6535/6737 |
Originally posted by Have a Merry X-Mas Me too. I'm horrible at retyping something on the screen if I don't know what it's going to say, but I can type my own thoughts pretty fast. Last time I took a speed typing test, it was at 70wpm. This time... Your speed was: 62wpm. You made 4 mistakes, your mistakes are shown in bold text: From the bridge of the Island Queen, which three times a week made the voyage between Obaig and the outer islands of the Hebrides, CAptain Donald MacKechnie gazed across a smooth expanse of grey sea to where the rugged outline of Great Todday stood out dark against a mass of deppening cloud in which a dull red gash showed that the sun was setting behind it. Captain MacKechnie muttered an ourder in Gaelic to the steersman, and the mailboat changed her course to round the south-west point of the islant that was her next port of call. |
| Milly Posts: 131/145 |
I got 92 WPM with no mistakes (in one try), but had to correct some typos ... looks like I'm right around average here 
I tried copy-paste too but it adds a comma between every word, so I just remove them all before pasting back ... I've gotten 20379 WPM with that, and it's possible to get over 100000 (with mistakes) if you paste the text many times at once  |
| Tarale Posts: 2521/2713 |
85WPM. Damn, my speed has gone down.
Not that I care anyway, I suspect my job actually makes my typing worse (trying to type up some of the crap clients tell you is bound to cause problems) I don't like that test either. You lose time clicking the "stop the clock" button, as opposed to an automated system... |
| blackhole89 Posts: 358/427 |
Whee, bothered to retake it~
Your speed was: 104wpm. Congratulations! You made no mistakes, practice does make perfect. I did get the impression that it takes me quite some time to click the "stop timer" button when I'm done however, I mostly don't need to look at the keys, though doing so would probably yet make me a bit faster since it'd help my targeting.
edit: more improvement~ Your speed was: 110wpm. Congratulations! You made no mistakes, practice does make perfect. For many days we had been tempest-tossed. Six times had the darkness closed over a wild and terrific scene, and returning light as often brought but renewed distress, for the raging storm increased in fury until on the seventh day all hope was lost. We were driven completely out of our course; no conjecture could be formed as to our whereabouts. The crew had lost heart, and were utterly exhausted by incessant labor. The riven masts had gone by the board, leaks had been sprung in every direction, and the water which rushed in gained upon us rapidly. |
| pikaguy900 Posts: 674/748 |
Maybe, maybe not. It's not JUST keyboards that I do that for. Why, the last time I took a driving "lesson" (I say that in quotation marks because my parents are teaching me), I accidentally swerved into the opposite lane when I tried to shift gears! See, I can't tell where anything is without looking at it, so when I looked down at the gear stick... Well, let's just say it's a good thing there were no cars near me... 
I don't think keyboard lessons can help me. Why, I do GREAT on a keyboard (I'm not using a laptop right now, mind you) even though I tend to take quick glances at the keyboard when I type a new word! I just look, put my fingers above each key, and press! What's weird, I can "see" the word as I type it. I wonder how my brain is able to spell out words by looking at keyboard keys while I think about them or type them...?
As for being on an actual keyboard, I think it'd depend on your laptop keyboard. My laptop (which doesn't have internet access or even COLOR) has the "mouse" button right in the middle of the keys, so it's hard for me to type... Like I said, it depends on your keyboard on your laptop. 
I'm actually quite happy with my typing speed right now. Like everyone said, we're all much better typing what we're thinking of, not copying something else.  |
| Xeo Belmont Posts: 713/1016 |
Take a Keyboarding class, that should get on the road to "knowing the keyboard" I guess.
Edit: Come to think of it, I am on a laptop ... maybe I could do better on an actual keyboard? (probably could). |
| pikaguy900 Posts: 671/748 |
 I got 44wpm. If there's one problem that REALLY makes me bad, it's that I can't do something with my hands without looking at it.  Then there's the fact that when I clicked the button, it didn't really register that I did so. XD I tried to get another one, but when I saw what it was, I thought, "No way am I going to type THIS!". Oh, and just so you know, I type VERY fast, but I make MANY mistakes, which I always go back and check for before (I do whatever it is I do with it). Plus, if a mistake DOES happen to escape me, I ALWAYS make sure I fix it (if I can, of course). I'm somewhat spell-check-happy.  But I surprise many with my typing speed, for some reason... |
| Starrodkirby86 Posts: 10/17 |
Your speed was: 72wpm.
You made 1 mistake, your mistake is shown in bold text: I believe it was the sight of that old fool Gladstone, standing in the pouring rain holding his special constable's truncheon as though it were a bunch of lilies, and looking even more like an unemployed undertaker's mute than usual, that made me think seriously about going into the politics. God knows I'm no Tory, and I never set eyes on a Whig yet without feeling the need of a bath, but I remember thinking as I looked at Gladstone that day: "Well, if that's one of the bright particular stars of English public life, Flashy my boy, you ought to be at Westminister yourself." --- Thanks to my lil' tag thingie, it looks like I got everything as an error. The word I missed was Westminster, where I typed it as Westminister. I'm not as old as other people around here so if I have a slower WPM than all of you, don't go mock me. And I rather would type my own stuff than copy an exercpt. |
| The Red Snifit Posts: 681/739 |
Your speed was: 109wpm.
Congratulations! You made no mistakes, practice does make perfect. I DO not propose to add anything to what has already been written concerning the loss of the "Lady Vain." As everyone knows, she collided with a derelict when ten days out from Callao. The longboat, with seven of the crew, was picked up eighteen days after by H. M. gunboat "Myrtle," and the story of their terrible privations has become quite as well known as the far more horrible "Medusa" case. But I have to add to the published story of the "Lady Vain" another, possibly as horrible and far stranger. It has hitherto been supposed that the four men who were in the dingey perished, I was one of the four men. I have always been good at typing. |
| Xeo Belmont Posts: 712/1016 |
Your speed was: 77wpm.
You made 1 mistake, your mistake is shown in bold text: When at the first I took my pen in hand Thus for to write, I did not understand That I at all should make a little book In such a mode; nay, I had undertook To make another; which, when almost done, Before I was aware, I this begun. And thus it was: I, writing of the way And race of saints, in this our gospel day, Feel suddenly into an allegory About their journey, and the way to glory, In more than twenty things which I set down. This done, I twenty more had in my crown; And they again began to multiply, Like sparks from the coals of fire to fly. Sample text: Erm, yeah. I think a year or two ago this would've been higher, but I'm not as active on boards like I used to be. So I'm not typing as much as I used to, I guess? But as others have said, typing my own thoughts is probably around 90wpm or something like that. |
| Dr. Sophie Posts: 8/32 |
Your speed was: 86wpm.
Congratulations! You made no mistakes, practice does make perfect. There was trembling in Greece. 'The Great King', as the Greeks called the chief potentate of the East, whose domains stretched from the Indian Caucasus to the Aegaeus, from the Caspian to the Red Sea, was marshalling his forces against the little free states that nestled amid the rocks and gulfs of the Eastern Mediterranean. Already had his might devoured the cherished colonies of the Greeks on the eastern shore of the Archipelago, and every traitor to home institutions found a ready asylum at that despotic court, and tried to revenge his own wrongs by whispering incitements to invasion. Uh.. Guess that's okay.
I don't know for sure what my typing speed is when I write my own thoughts, I think I'm slightly faster with that though. |
| Alastor Posts: 7870/8204 |
Originally posted by Metal Man88I understand. Some of the stuff I was typing I paused on because it was having trouble feeling the rhythm of the sentence, which made typing hard. I'm sure I'd have done much better on more sane things. Originally posted by D1337So just acknowledge that it's better than it says Originally posted by TatrionPfft. I did better than that when I copied and pasted. |
| Metal Man88 Posts: 566/701 |
I type my own thoughts at about 90 WPM; complex and confusing stuff like this takes more like 73 WPM.
Throughout the island world of the, Pacific, scattered men of many European races and from almost every grade of society carry activity and disseminate disease. Some prosper, some vegetate. Some have mounted the steps of thrones and owned islands and navies. Others again must marry for a livelihood; a strapping, merry, chocolate-coloured dame supports them in sheer idleness; and, dressed like natives, but still retaining some foreign element of gait or attitude, still perhaps with some relic, such as a single eye-glass, of the officer and gentleman, they sprawl in palm-leaf verandahs and entertain an island audience with memoirs of the music-hall. |
| D 2007 Posts: 388/497 |
I don't like these kind of tests because they base it on how fast you can re-type text.
I'm not very good at that, but I am pretty good when it comes to typing out my own original thoughts and the like. |
| Tatrion Posts: 2418/2467 |
Your speed was: 2753wpm.
Congratulations! You made no mistakes, practice does make perfect. Noon. London: my flat. Ugh. The last thing on earth I feel physically, emotionally or mentally equipped to do is drive to Una and Geoffrey Alconbury's New Year's Day Turkey Curry Buffet in Grafton Underwood. Geoffrey and Una Alconbury are my parents' best friends and, as Uncle Geoffrey never tires of reminding me, have known me since I was running round the lawn with no clothes on. My mother rang up at 8.30 in the morning last August Bank Holiday and forced me to promise to go. She approached it via a cunningly circuitous route. |
| S.N.N. Posts: 1933/2028 |
Your speed was: 91wpm.
You made 2 mistakes, your mistakes are shown in bold text: No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine. Her situation in life, the character of her father and mother, her own person and disposition, were all equally against her. Her father, though his name was Richard, and he has never been handone. He had a considerable independence besides two good livings, and he was not in the least addicted to locking up his daughters. Her mother was a woman of useful plain sense, with a good temper, and, what is more remarkable, with a good consitution. |
| NSNick Posts: 1992/2228 |
I'll have to try this on my desktop, as my laptop's j and m keys are gone, which kinda slow me down. Still, I'm not anticipating anything stellar. |
| Alastor Posts: 7865/8204 |
Your speed was: 92wpm.
You made 1 mistake, your mistake is shown in bold text: On my eighth birthday my father put my name on the books of the ironmaster and took me to work at the garndyrus furnaces. It was either the furnaces or the Abergavenny Hiring Fair, and I chose the furnaces, for some of the farmers were devils with the stick. Starting work at eight years old was late to begin a career, for some of the children in town began work at seven, or earlier. Take Sara Roberts - she was about my age but she had been chipping the rock from the iron vein since she was five, and Ieun Mathers lost one foot under a tram at five and the other when he was six. It was supposed to be capitalized |
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