40 wpm with 2 mistakes. I guess that's not too bad considering I got a D in typing when I was in high school and I type with four fingers.

One of my sons types 120. He plays trumpet, but he would have been a whiz of a pianist. Actually he has been teaching himself hymns on piano and can play about 100 of them, which I struggle with. He was here for a visit and sight read Bach minuets that I took weeks to learn.

Laura, a new "adult beginner"

65 wpm with 3 errors. Not too rusty.

Hmm, "You typed 5 words per minute with 42 errors." Any chance these numbers are the wrong way round? Or am I just the world's wrsot typre?

88/2. I guess it's just about practice. If we've been tinkling with the keyboard (computer one not piano) for years, we tend to be faster and we don't look at the keyboard to know what we're typing.

32 wpm with 1 (spacing) error. With one hand!
Piano keyboard's much easier...

First try: 33 wpm w/ 23 errors

Second try: 34 wpm w/15 errors

3rd try . . .

Umpteenth try: 55 wpm w/ 3 errors

Guess I'm rusty.

Having it halt when hitting a wrong key really annoyed me ! Good thing the piano doesn't quit making sound everytime one hits a wrong key!

Done! You typed 44 words per minute with 14 errors!

Done! You typed 40 words per minute with 5 errors!Yay.... stupid commas!

I think the record is held by our receptionist friend Nikki23!! 113!!!!wow

I can max at around 80-85 wpm with less than 5 errors. Crusing speed is about 50 wpm with less than 5 errors.

On the piano, max at 12 notes/second in some really fast cadenzas.

I typed about 75wpm - don't type much now so guess around 55wpm.

Never liked typing tests and somehow my fingers don't like them either. Happy that I don't have to worry about them anymore.

I worked with someone who typed around 110wpm no errors with long fingernails. Never did figure out how she was able to accomplish this feat.

82wpm with 1 error. Pretty good since I haven't done any fast typing on a regular basis since college. Now if I could only get my piano playing up to that speed!

I got 56/17, . I use to be able to touch the 80/5 mark. Where did my typing skills go?

Done! You typed 94 words per minute with 2 errors!

87 words per minute with 7 errors - hm, glad i don't need to use whiteout...
Hugh Sung

I got 68 wpm with 8 errors. That was on the 2nd test, because the first time I tried it I didn't realize it wouldn't let you go on until you corrected an error.

Fun test!

85 words per minute with 2 errors! But admittedly, I took the test twice. The first time around I got 36/22 or something. The lack of a backspace really threw me off the first time around - I usually know that I've typed an error before I see it on the screen, so I reflexively go for the backspace, which in this case only slows things down further.

Well I am a lousy pianist, but I managed 50 wpm with no errors. Remember, back in the "old days" you needed to do 60 or 70 wpm with no errors to get a secretarial job.

It is a fun test, but fairly unrelated to piano playing

My first time through I ended up 37/6. Then I realized that they don't allow backspacing and they screw up the format by only allowing one space between sentences. (There are supposed to be two.)

Anyhow, my retest was 96/1.

And on a mechanical typewriter that you really have to pound on the keys.

75 words, 1 error, third attempt.

The two spaces between sentences dates to the dark ages, Kreisler, when you and I were typing on mechanical typewriters. Nowadays, with wordprocessers that automatically wrap around, most style manuals only want you to put one space between sentences. You can't teach this old dog new tricks, so I still put two.

122 wpm w/ 1 error

DANG!!!

just 81/0 here.

Just as a point of reference, my sister was a professional technical typist back in the 70's and 80's. She clocked 135 wpm on the standard typing test! She can barely use her wrists these days.

I am a two-fingered, hunt & peck typist, myself.

World Records in Typing

TEST RESULT TYPIST MACHINE YEAR
1 hr 147 wpm Albert Tangora Underwood Standard 1923
1 hr 149 wpm Margaret Hamma electric typewriter 1941
1 min 216 wrds Stella Pajunas IBM machine 1946
5 min 176 wpm Carole Bechen manual typewriter 1959
3 min 158 wpm Gregory Arakelian personal computer 1991
???? 192 wpm Natalie Lantos** PC 1998