If you want to know your typing speed, find out by taking a test. That'll help you understand where you stand. An average computer-proficient person can type about 40 words per Minute (WPM).

After all, Mr. Peach, who hadn’t learned to type properly, was in a middle school computer science class when he first took a typing test and ended up at 100 words a minute (40 words per minute ...

At just 17 years old, "MythicalRocket," or simply "Rocket," has achieved an astonishing typing speed of 305 words per minute (WPM), more than seven times faster than the average person's 40 WPM.

Typing? Typing for fun? Really? Yes – really! Call us weird, but some of us get a kick out of bashing our fingers against the buttons on our keyboards and making words appear on a screen.

Honestly, the most extraordinary thing about this 16-year-old breaking the record for typing by hitting over 300 words per minute is that he’s ever heard of a keyboard. Shouldn’t he be tapping ...

Good typing speeds are relative to job descriptions. For example, data entry positions usually require 60-80 words per minute. Medical transcriptionists, paralegals and executive secretaries ...

In fact, the moment Rocket achieved 305 words per minute in 15 seconds was uploaded to YouTube as a video. Rocket repeats a 15-second typing test on Monkeytype. The test involves typing the ...

I’m typing more words per minute. I might have memorized 100,000 unique short forms, like “SPIBL.” For example, I can write “how many” as “HOUM” and “how long” as “HOUNG.” ...