Typing speed
I stumbled upon a typing test. I chose “Fishing in Finland” and measuring in CPM (characters per minute, as opposed to WPM - words per minute, which is pretty useless). And my first result was 250 - hazah. That makes slightly more than 4 keystrokes per second, which is not bad, considering the fact that I spent quite a lot of the time looking at the screen and reading (when I want to type as fast as possible I have to look at the keyboard), also the word “eutrophication” took several seconds for me to grasp. On next rounds I achieved higher score, but I guess that doesn’t really count when you know the text already.
Then I tried just writing something from my mind (eg. I didn’t look at the screen at all) and I wrote 90 characters in 15 seconds (tried it several times with similar results), which makes cca 6 keystrokes per second (if I understand it correctly, that is roughly equal to 60 wpm).
According to wikipedia, there’s a woman who is about three times faster than me. Twice faster would be still at least imaginable, but three times faster than me? Come on… I am not that slow… or am I?
