<p>10 wpm. When did you guys learn how to type? Any suggestions on improving to 40 wpm?
Will slow typing hinder me in college?</p>
<p>my computer class used to make the students practicing typing in middle class. two years of clickety-clacking. but i'm glad we went through it all. i stand at 100 wpm. :)</p>
<p>f9x9, use the typing websites to practice. they're really efficient in improving your typing. slow typing might prevent you from getting your homework done faster in college or taking quick notes on your laptop, but it's not a major difference.</p>
<p>I'm at about 40-50wpm. I should try and improve that...</p>
<p>125+WPM, depending on confidence. I hate most typing tests because they give you disjointed phrases and words. I type best when the thing I'm typing is cogent (usually complete sentences weaved together into a complete paragraph).</p>
<p>But I grew up with computers. I've had one around for as long as I can remember, and I remember when I was 5 and wanted my mother to teach me how to type as fast as she did. :)</p>
<p>60ish....lots of AIMing helps</p>
<p>Both of those tests give very coherent (and in my opinion cogent) typing samples...</p>
<p>Yes, they did. I was happy with them.</p>
<p>I get annoyed by Mario Teaches Typing and the like, which work on symbols/letters and single words, or the pages of words/phrases. I can't type quickly with that because I can't presuppose what's going to come next.</p>
<p>That's when I type 75-90WPM. :P</p>
<p>I type 80-90 with 0 errors. Over 100 with 2-3.</p>
<p>I took a typing class in 7th grade. We used a box to cover the keyboard so you couldn't see the keys, and started with only the home keys and slowly expanded. Errors weren't counted in our grade until the 2nd half of the class. The first half was just to try to get us hitting the keys without trying to think so much about where each letter was, as that would come with time. Before that I typed slowly. Then I got to like 40 with no mistakes at the end of the class. Through writing lots of papers and AIM I improved to where I am now.</p>
<p>f9x9, use the websites, and start at the intro part. You will just start using the letters 'asdf' and 'jkl;'. These are the keys your hands should be one when you put them on the keyboard. Then slowly, it will add a letter at a time. It will take time to learn to type faster, but it is very very worth your time.</p>
<p>In elementary school my parents would sometimes type things for me that I had already written out by hand, because they typed faster than me. Now, I type at least twice as fast as them.</p>
<p>wow. The typing speeds here are really great. You folks with 110/120 wpm are averaging 2 words per second!!! Impressive.The World Record is Barbara Blackburn's 212 wpm, and her average speed is 170/150 wpm... Anyone up to challenge her? :p</p>
<p>Thanks for the links to the typing tests bstewart. :)</p>
<p>f9x9 - I agree with the advice from the others: practice and take every opportunity to type quickly. AIM/Messaging helps, as long as you're typing accurately... and you could probably try a software typing program like Mavis Beacon. It should help with your college assignments and papers if you're able to type faster because at least you'll be spending less time typing each report.</p>
<p>I can type ~113 WPM.</p>
<p>Whoa, some of you are super fast. i was 8 words faster on the second site than I was on the learn 2 type site (50 v 42) i wonder which is more accurate...</p>
<p>85 for me on that website..</p>
<p>About 105.</p>