I recently wrote a post on my blog about a Speed Typing Test which ended up being pretty popular with my readers, so thought I’d share it with you here.
I’ve been using computers ever since I got my first in the form of a Sinclair Spectrum 128k +2 back when I was 7, however the one regret I have is that I still cannot properly touch type, but how good am I currently?
Given all the years that I’ve been using computers, it has meant that I can type fairly quickly at a decent speed through a combination of using 4-6 fingers at a time and semi-looking at the keyboard – I kind of know whereabouts the keys are, but if I don’t look down at the keyboard while typing, most of the time I will make mistakes. Now that I am blogging regularly, being able to get my thoughts into type as quickly as possible would be a real advantage for me.
This is the first time that I’ve used a timed typing test online to give me an idea of my typing speed, but from what I saw from my 55wpm results and those of others, given my limiting factors of not being able to touch type, I got a decent score that I’m quite impressed by.
Obviously, like many tests, this timed typing test included, it’s not going to be perfect, but it certainly gives a good indication how good you are and gives encouragement to put the time in to learning to touch type which you can do by going to 10 Fast Fingers.
Woo hoo, I did 44. I think I was lucky.
I never knew how slow I could type until i took the test… I got 123 characters consisting of 25 correct words and no wrong words. Though, I was like looking at the keyboard most of the time! Beautiful one there!

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