I recently wrote a post on my blog about a Speed Typing Test which ended up being pretty popular with my readers, so thought I’d share it with you here.

I’ve been using computers ever since I got my first in the form of a Sinclair Spectrum 128k +2 back when I was 7, however the one regret I have is that I still cannot properly touch type, but how good am I currently?

Given all the years that I’ve been using computers, it has meant that I can type fairly quickly at a decent speed through a combination of using 4-6 fingers at a time and semi-looking at the keyboard – I kind of know whereabouts the keys are, but if I don’t look down at the keyboard while typing, most of the time I will make mistakes. Now that I am blogging regularly, being able to get my thoughts into type as quickly as possible would be a real advantage for me.

55 words

This is the first time that I’ve used a timed typing test online to give me an idea of my typing speed, but from what I saw from my 55wpm results and those of others, given my limiting factors of not being able to touch type, I got a decent score that I’m quite impressed by.

Obviously, like many tests, this timed typing test included, it’s not going to be perfect, but it certainly gives a good indication how good you are and gives encouragement to put the time in to learning to touch type which you can do by going to 10 Fast Fingers.