How fast can YOU type.

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Just a little poll on typing speed, mine aint too bad (60ish wpm) but i dont use touch typing posture, hand positioning or finger work.

Heres a quick way to test, http://www.typingtest.com/

 

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when i was last tested a year or so ago - i was at 44wpm with a 2% error rate! but that was before i spent all my time in a callcentre typing!

Fergal

 

Not my best, but its 8:30am and im sitting at this fked angle so i dont put te leg of my chair through my mates head lol

 

Mine's pretty good considering I only use two fingers.
If I used all of them I'd be dynamite!

 

Speed is not important - well it is if you bu$$er up a DNS server and need to unbu$$er it up quickly!

 

Hmm ... i wonder if it'd be worth putting typing speed on a CV ... more importantly where the hell would you.

 

If you were going for a Data Entry job, or some mundane office job I would stick it on. But I really don't think it would look anything but odd on a CV you were submitting for a tech job.

Any techy who's been at it for a while is gonna be fairly fast at typing just through exposure to it for so long.

Even if you haven't been in the game long, I'd rather have a slow typing tech who knew their stuff than a fast typing one who didn't ... (not implying you're the latter btw )

 

I am the latter, i just know how to say "Skuzzy" really well too.

 

as mentioned above its really not important for a tech job, or as sandy says, it can be ;)
the important fact is also error%, its all good typin 200 wpm but if your error % is over 10 your likely to make alot of typos, in alot of files that dont work well with typos!
so as long as you can check all your mistakes then thats good, but most people cant, and its real easy to miss a syntax error in a 3 page config file!

never been asked my typing speed in almost 10 years, so guess its really not that important to us techs

 

A lousy 47 wpm.

 

Even lousier 40 wpm with 95% accuracy

 

I actually scored 60 wpm in a proper exam two years ago (got a certificate to prove it too - should I put that in my profile? ) Mind you, that exam was in a ten minute burst with hardly any numbers (my weakest when it comes to touch typing). I should think now, and in a reasonable working situation, I probably average about 50ish... with a back wind...

 

50wpm for me, im quite rusty tho..now if its the numeric keypad - im at ~4500 amounts per hour RSI here i come!