Typing Test

My results:

Test name: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Gross Speed: 41 Words per minute
Errors: 1 Word
Net Speed: 40 Words per minute
Accuracy: 97%

82 WPM, but I made the mistake of backspacing to correct an error and it counted every word after that wrong. :rolleyes: Before that, there were no errors. I'll take it again later, though.

So you basically put your both hands and some other stuff on Keyboard?! :p

40 WPM, 2 errors.

I remember when I was in college (this is almost 40 years ago, remember) they made all freshman take a typing class, which you could be exempt from if you passed a proficiency test.

I never learned to touch type, but I had typed a fair amount up until then, and having no desire to take the class, I took the test to be exempt.

I don't remember how they scored it, but I remember having more than 40 WPM with maybe two or three mistakes, and I passed.

I remember the teacher being really pissed off that he had to exempt me from the class when i didn't know how to touch type.

Also, there was a piece in one of Irving Wallace's People's Almanacs about how the keyboard we used is referred to as a "QWERTY" keyboard, because of the sequence of letters on the top row.

Someone once developed a keyboard based on the frequency of the appearance of letters in the English language being those on the so-called "home keys", and gave it to some professional typists to use.

After considerable practice, they increased their speed tremendously - I forget the exact numbers, but it was like a 30-40% increase in speed - but for some odd reason, the new keyboard never caught on.

Test: Tigers in the Wild
Gross Speed: 55 WPM
Errors: 3 words
Net Speed: 52 WPM
Accuracy: 94%

Mick

Typing was the absolute most useful class I ever took in 4 years of high school. It should be required of everyone (if they don't pass a proficiency test), especially in these days of computing...

I can type w/ all 10 fingers, w/o looking at the keyboard, and can (or at least one time could) type the letters A thru Z in order w/o looking. I still make typos, though, because sometimes my fingers go faster than my brain can keep up - so I type a lot of homonyms (shaddap, DMC! :p ) -- or, sometimes I simply cannot spell.

Test name: Tigers in the Wild
Gross Speed: 61 WPM
0 Errors
Net Speed: 61 WPM
Accuracy: 100%

Test Name: Strategic Alliances with Competitors

Gross Speed: 58 wpm

Errors: 4 words

Net Speed: 54 wpm

Accuracy: 93%

I'm not taking this test unless it counts for GangsterBB Fantasy Hall of Fame points (whatever those are :p ).

I don't know of any GBB FHF, but if you post your results twice we can start a congratulation thread for you!

87 WPM
2 Errors


Yea baby

- Test Name: Tigers in the Wild
- Date: 2005-09-26 19:44
- Test Time: 03:00
- Gross Speed: 60 WPM
- Errors: 19
- Accuracy: 89%

- NET SPEED: 53 WPM

damn punctuation kept messing me up.