WPM

Your speed was: 281wpm.

You made 33 mistakes, your mistakes are shown in bold text:

asdgasf gasdf gasdf gjkasbfghuibasfdil gbasfugbl bffdb gsuireb gwueb5 yw79g5 v8w753b y8qb35ty3bq3 bgy8bg 7843bgy8 3q2by8 g2b54gy84b vfy82b4y8g b254 bg45y8 bg24g254y bgy854bg w4bgy8b y83bvy3by8 vb53 y85y3vb3by8vby83v bq83 bvy83q vby8q23b v 43vby8123brgy81b3guvukrevauKSDFVKWEKVGWUKB5 G23G 13 G3 GH4T

But when I actually try to type the words shown, it's around 70-80 with no mistakes

According to that typing site, I type at 87 WPM (0 mistakes).

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Originally Posted by Flying Mullet

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Originally Posted by Araciel

I heard the QWERTY keyboard was designed to slow typists down so that they wouldn't jam up typewriters back in the day...

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Yes, that is partly true. I do wonder how the keys on the typewriter are connected though because I always found it surprising that the "e" and "r" keys are right next to each other.

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I think whoever designed the qwerty layout was trying to come up with a new pick up line because he put U and I together

xD

I type fast enough. I've taken loads of test and my typing speed has varied a lot over the years depending on how I feel and what test it is. Some of them I feel I've typed really fast on and got something like 60-70wpm, others have me at over 80wpm even when I feel I've done badly. So yeah.

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Originally Posted by rubah

wow, that's tough, jesse.

i guess if you were using a laptop, you might not want to pop out your keys, but you could still just not look at them!

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External USB keyboard ftw.

EDIT: According to the test linked, I type at 96wpm with no mistakes. I find this slightly sub-par, though, as there were mistakes that I had to replicate... in one test they had "he" where a "the" should be, and in another one they skipped a comma when using multiple descriptions.