Well...i remember typing like 80 words a minute in high school. I tried this online typing test and found im still at 76 words per minute. http://www.calculatorcat.com/typing_test/#typing_speed_test See how you all do.
I'm sitting on my coutch with my laptop and got 75-80. Could probaby do it faster sitting at a desk. A little interesting fact about the keyboard. The QWERTY keyboard system was actually invented to slow typers down on typewriters, since if you type too fast, the hammers get jammed. (yea thats right I've used a typewriter. used to play around with one at my grandparents house). Putting common letters like E, D, S, and A on the left hand with weak fingers is an example. Studies have been done that show with different keyboard setups, people can get 200 WPM and even up to 400!
The problem was actually the mechanical innards of the typewriter. It was originally laid out in alphabetical order, but that caused some commonly used letters to fall in troublesome spots on the typewriter. It would jam at anything faster than hunt an peck typing. In order to allow typists at the time to type faster (yes, it was originally designed to SPEED UP typing), they moved what they thought were the most commonly used letters as far apart as possible. This reduced the jamming and allowed faster typing. It became a standard, even though typewriter design quickly outpaced the need to spread the keys out so much. We've been stuck with it ever since.
176. That's what I get for being a computer person. 15 some odd years of typing, but started over about 10 years ago when I switched my keyboards to dvorak. As the threads, it IS faster. As I side note, in university, I used to type out assignments for my class mates and remember typing and then waiting on them to continue dictating... it involved some guesses when they started the word, but it generally was pretty imrpessive.. sounded like a machine gun as one class mate put it.. not a gatling gun, just an ak47. .. rat a tat tat tat.
Well, lets see.. this thread started on the tenth and it's now the fourteenth, so it took me that long to add this response... I really don't know my WPM, but it's fast enough for business purposes.
