Feb

26

So, You Think You Type Fast?

Filed Under friend, me, life 

In the first year of university, where computer was still something alien to me, my teammate accidentally deleted our ONLY soft copy of assignment on the day before we need to deliver it. Shit.

We didn't even know that the file might still be in the Recycle Bin, yeah we were rather dumb back then. If I remembered correctly it was quite many pages and all of us were slow typer. So, we were panic and started right away, to retype all the pages within a night! (=.=)"

Typing was also something new to me, I have to look at the keyboard and look for the characters and it took forever to type one single page. But thank God, I had this fast-typing-roomie who finally offered us a hand; I suppose she couldn't stand our tortoise-pace-typing. Yeah, she could type real quickly and she went on tat-rat-lat-lat-tat-rat-lat-lat on the keyboard and guess what? We managed to retype it in a night!

I wanted to type as fast as her too! And so on the 2nd year of uni, my another-roomie bought a CD on learning typing. With that I started to learn from basic on typing. It was pretty amazing software as I learnt to type without looking at the keyboard. But I think I didn't master enough of it at I still couldn't type numbers on top of the keyboard and the special characters without looking.

Today, I must say I am a pretty good typer as I could type relentlessly, as fast as I could think. Or so I thought. When I saw Keone's blog on checking your typing speed, I couldn't help but to click on it. Finally I can gauge my typing speed and I was so happy to beat him as well as SST!

I could type at 75 words per minute or about 436 characters, averaging about 7.2 characters per second!!! I thought I was good, until my ex-colleagues beat me at 80 words per minute!!! Shit!  

And I suddenly remembered my ex-roomie. She once told me that she's typing so fast that it scares her sometimes. So, I asked her to take the test. Her first result was 82! She tried again and it hits 88!!! Darn! My ex-colleague was baffled to hear that.  

On her 3rd try, she got 93 words per minute! Man, that's a crazy speed. She said, I am a few years behind her (in typing, coz she started earlier than me) :P  

And with that, I found my new resolution for the year. ^.^

         
Her result, my new goal~

Check yours typing speed here and let me know the result too! :D

P/S : Latest update : I hit 83 words per minute, 492 characters! Muaahahahahahha~ I felt a little invisible~

Comments

14 Responses to “So, You Think You Type Fast?”

  1. AceOne118 on February 26th, 2008 2:24 pm

    Hehehe, my PAWS can type well also wan you know! 60 words “sap-sap water” lah for me. kakaka :P

  2. sharlydia on February 26th, 2008 3:05 pm

    hahaha….interesting post!

  3. Jys on February 26th, 2008 3:26 pm

    interesting.. i tried and i got 91 words!! must beat your friend’s record. hehe..

  4. Jys on February 26th, 2008 3:29 pm

    tried again just now and i got 94 words correct and 1 wrong. wuahahahahahahaa beat ur friend’s record already. hehe…

  5. vickie on February 26th, 2008 5:18 pm

    normally 75 words per minutes ARE SUPER FAST already and now you can get the record of 83 wpm geng!

  6. Entrepreneur on February 26th, 2008 6:18 pm

    I type at 60 words per minute and my blog is worth $0 … I think I am going to go jump off a cliff now.

  7. Mike on February 27th, 2008 11:58 am

    I can type about 364 characters per minute on a laptop. Probably much higher on a regular keyboard.

  8. admin on February 27th, 2008 8:56 pm

    AceOne118, try hitting 84, my new record :p

    sharlydia, thanks! :D

    Jys, u r good!!! my fren broke ur record! she hit 95 per min!!!

    vickie, i wanna hit 95 n beats my fren!!! :D

    Entrepreneur, 60 is quite good, many of my frens are below 60!

    Mike, yeah, i suppose wif regular keyboard we can type faster~

  9. chriskong57 on February 27th, 2008 9:35 pm

    Aisehman, you all are aliens lar , how do you all manage to do it? I will accompany Entrepreneur to jump the cliff ..cos I only 25 words per minute..si liao…

  10. admin on February 27th, 2008 9:44 pm

    Chris, practise makes perfect mah.. hhehee.. i use computer more than 12 hours a day ler..kekekee… and i make my living using computer too :D

  11. Alvin Lim on February 28th, 2008 3:51 am

    *cough cough*

    You type 533 characters per minute
    You have 100 correct words and
    you have 0 wrong words

    wa…my hand very tired. always 90ish only

  12. Jys on February 28th, 2008 5:34 pm

    I broke ur friend’s 95 record..i got 107 words per minute. wuahahahaha..

    maybe all simple and short words lar..

  13. admin on February 28th, 2008 9:04 pm

    Alvin, wah u r another fast one!!

    JYS.. i got nothing to say.. i think i give up challenging ppl >_<

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