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Can you beat me in typing speed?

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:34 pm
by Gustaf Wasa
How fast are you at typing? I type more than 40 words a minute, according to this test: http://www.jonmiles.co.uk/fingerjig.php

The average score for Fingerjig is 476,983. If you can beat this then you're doing well!

I got 1,066,280 points.


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The test is in six parts; there's no use taking a screen shot of the result from the first part only, as it is too easy.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:37 pm
by Anarkistsdream
Why would I care?

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:43 pm
by Nickbaldwin
No I couldnt :( I couldnt even be bothered to go all the way through :P

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:57 pm
by Phobia
not good enough. what caughted me out often is that the words are from an american dictionary. so, words such as civilization came up, but here in the uk we spell it as civilisation!

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:38 pm
by Gustaf Wasa
Phobia wrote:not good enough. what caughted me out often is that the words are from an american dictionary. so, words such as civilization came up, but here in the uk we spell it as civilisation!


Hehe. And I am from Sweden. :D

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 3:50 pm
by debra79
Phobia wrote:not good enough. what caughted me out often is that the words are from an american dictionary. so, words such as civilization came up, but here in the uk we spell it as civilisation!


Don't know how that all works then, seeing as it's a UK website :S

According to real typing test websites I type more than 60 words per minute. I only got somewhere in the 500,000 mark for this test. What I found interesting was that when the words contained letters only from the right half of the keyboard, my wpm went down to 22, and then when it was just letters from the left side, went up to over 50. Wonder if that's because I'm left handed?

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:05 pm
by Colaalone
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1,811,401,645... not bad I guess.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:12 pm
by Norse
lol, it is spelt civilization in england

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:29 pm
by Nickbaldwin
debra79 wrote:
Phobia wrote:not good enough. what caughted me out often is that the words are from an american dictionary. so, words such as civilization came up, but here in the uk we spell it as civilisation!


Don't know how that all works then, seeing as it's a UK website :S

According to real typing test websites I type more than 60 words per minute. I only got somewhere in the 500,000 mark for this test. What I found interesting was that when the words contained letters only from the right half of the keyboard, my wpm went down to 22, and then when it was just letters from the left side, went up to over 50. Wonder if that's because I'm left handed?


I got that aswell, and I'm left handed too.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:33 pm
by debra79
Norse wrote:lol, it is spelt civilization in england
Not according to dictionary.co.uk: civilization, UK USUALLY civilisation

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:34 pm
by dwightschrute
it wont let me do it.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:36 pm
by dwightschrute
but i can type like 80 words per minute

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:44 pm
by Anarkistsdream
Does it really matter how fast someone can type, unless they are going to work for the Television Captioning company?

Everything else is done on shorthand typewriters, which are totally different.

If you can type as fast as some of you say, my solution is step away from the keyboard, go outside and get some air!

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:49 pm
by debra79
Anarkistsdream wrote:Does it really matter how fast someone can type, unless they are going to work for the Television Captioning company?
There are many jobs that require you to have fast data entry speeds, especially in the Accounting field, which I work in!

Anarkistsdream wrote:Everything else is done on shorthand typewriters, which are totally different.
I've never even seen a shorthand typewriter, much less used one. They are generally reserved for court clerks.

Anarkistsdream wrote:If you can type as fast as some of you say, my solution is step away from the keyboard, go outside and get some air!
I learnt how to type fast in Advanced Keyboarding in High School over 10 years ago. It's a skill once learnt, never forgotten. So no, thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think I will step away from the keyboard. I get plenty enough air.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:55 pm
by Anarkistsdream
debra79 wrote:
Anarkistsdream wrote:Does it really matter how fast someone can type, unless they are going to work for the Television Captioning company?
There are many jobs that require you to have fast data entry speeds, especially in the Accounting field, which I work in!

Anarkistsdream wrote:Everything else is done on shorthand typewriters, which are totally different.
I've never even seen a shorthand typewriter, much less used one. They are generally reserved for court clerks.

Anarkistsdream wrote:If you can type as fast as some of you say, my solution is step away from the keyboard, go outside and get some air!
I learnt how to type fast in Advanced Keyboarding in High School over 10 years ago. It's a skill once learnt, never forgotten. So no, thanks for the suggestion, but I don't think I will step away from the keyboard. I get plenty enough air.



Touché, my dear!!! Well spoken... And I have seen several other occupations aside from court clerks who use shorthand typewriters... Many other people in the law field, as well as some in the medical field.

And you took a typing class... That makes sense. They didn't have that when I was in high school... :wink:

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:58 pm
by debra79
It was part of a computer class, we didn't type on the old school typewriters...I'm not that old! :lol:

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 5:00 pm
by dwightschrute
Anarkistsdream wrote:Does it really matter how fast someone can type, unless they are going to work for the Television Captioning company?

Everything else is done on shorthand typewriters, which are totally different.

If you can type as fast as some of you say, my solution is step away from the keyboard, go outside and get some air!
i do that a lot, but we took all this typing stuff in school and i dont do 80 i was jk.

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:14 pm
by Phobia
debra79 wrote:
Norse wrote:lol, it is spelt civilization in england
Not according to dictionary.co.uk: civilization, UK USUALLY civilisation


yeah, anything ending in -zation or similar, is always -sation in uk

analyze - analyse
apologize - apologise
authorize - authorise
capitalize - capitalise

and so on and so on

i think the misleading thing is the game civilization, it is just spelt like that in the uk

PostPosted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 6:26 pm
by debra79
yeah, anything ending in -zation or similar, is always -sation in uk
It's the same in Australia, oddly enough :wink: But I did a double-take when someone from the UK would post that people from the UK spell words with a z, instead of an s.

PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:48 am
by reverend_kyle
basically I type on an actual typing application 165 words per minute. I couldnt get shit for points because I was actually typing too fast for it to log my typing that I was doing it'd miss a letter at the beginning because I was going to fast for the typing aplication and count the entire word as wrong so I got a fairly low score.

PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:18 am
by alex_white101
Colaalone wrote:Image

1,811,401,645... not bad I guess.


lmao

PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:20 am
by debra79
reverend_kyle wrote:basically I type on an actual typing application 165 words per minute.
I don't see how that is physically possible, I'd like to see you prove it :)

PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 3:23 am
by reverend_kyle
debra79 wrote:
reverend_kyle wrote:basically I type on an actual typing application 165 words per minute.
I don't see how that is physically possible, I'd like to see you prove it :)



I'm a pretty amazing typer. 165 would be my technical max and it takes quite a bit of practice to achieve but I have acheived it 2 or 3 times. My high normal is about 135 and my regular without really thinking about it is between 90 and 100.


I don't have a typing thing on my computer so I will screenshot it next september when i'm back in school.

PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 4:16 am
by debra79
There are plenty of free typing tests you can do online. Go and find one and come back with the results. I would like you to validate your statement that you can type 135 words per minute, because that's just Ripley's material!

PostPosted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 11:47 am
by Balsiefen
:shock: wow, i only got 59461

then again i am dyspraxic ( cant even spell it)