Do you type words or letters?

How fast are you?

Published on August 13, 2006 By Question of the Day In Misc

I've read that the key to increasing your keyboarding speed is to type words not letters. I'm working on it but it's hard. It seems like instead of reversing a few letters I type a completely wrong word, which I think is worse.

I took a test here Link

Here are my results:

Test Name: Strategic Alliances with Competitors
Gross Speed 68 WPM
Errors 30 words
Net speed 58 wpm

How about you?

Comments (Page 2)

Question of the Day

on Aug 17, 2006

Hi Alex! Did you take the test? How'd it go?

Ziggystyles

on Aug 18, 2006

This is about average for me. I usually type faster depending on when Im typing...type faster at certain times of the day...etc. Although...Ive been away from a computer for a couple of weeks as well so Im rusty.

Test: Strategic Alliances

Gross Speed 69 WPM
Errors 3 words
Net Speed 66 WPM
Accuracy 95%

MaryQuiteContrary

on Aug 19, 2006

Test: Strategic Alliances
Gross WPM: 94
Errors: 11 words
Net: 87 wpm
Accuracy: 96 -- I think

Best ways to increase speed: 1. lots of practice! 2. mastery of the language and excellent spelling. If you're a good speller, you SEE and TYPE a word as a word, without thinking about the sequence of letters that comprise it. If you struggle with spelling, you will naturally be more focused on a stringing together the right letters. Make sense?

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