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  2. Words per minute - Wikipedia

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    As of 2019, the average typing speed on a mobile phone was 36.2 wpm with 2.3% uncorrected errors—there were significant correlations with age, level of English proficiency, and number of fingers used to type. [3] Some typists have sustained speeds over 200 wpm for a 15-second typing test with simple English words. [4]

  3. Typing - Wikipedia

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    From the 1920s through the 1970s, typing speed (along with shorthand speed) was an important secretarial qualification and typing contests were popular and often publicized by typewriter companies as promotional tools. A less common measure of the speed of a typist, CPM is used to identify the number of characters typed per minute.

  4. Touch typing - Wikipedia

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    Touch type training can improve an individual's typing speed and accuracy dramatically. Speeds average around 30–40 WPM (words per minute), while a speed of 60–80 WPM is the approximate speed to keep up with one's thoughts.

  5. Typequick - Wikipedia

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    Typequick Skill Evaluator, a fully-automated typing speed test, [23] was designed to evaluate new employees' competency with handling keyboards, while identifying staff in need of training [2] by monitoring each keystroke within a chosen period and scoring the test for both speed and accuracy according to the Australian Standard. [46]

  6. TypeRacer - Wikipedia

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    When completed successfully, if high-scoring players achieve a score that is 25% higher than their recorded CAPTCHA speed, an additional challenge-response test will be reactivated. After a player completes a race, five metrics measure the user's performance: registered wpm, unlagged wpm, accuracy, points, and rank.

  7. Mario Teaches Typing - Wikipedia

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    In the base mode, the player must type out a given text without additional decor. There are three difficulty levels of typing challenges based on Super Mario World: the chosen character continuously runs to the right until encountering an obstacle or enemy adorned with a letter (level 1), word (level 2), or sentence (level 3). Entering this ...

  8. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing - Wikipedia

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    Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing is an application software program designed to teach touch typing. Released in late 1987 by The Software Toolworks, the program aimed to enhance users' typing skills through a series of interactive lessons and games. Mavis Beacon is an entirely fictional character, created for marketing purposes.

  9. Speed typing contest - Wikipedia

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    In a speed typing contest contestants ... 1930s and were used to test the relative efficiency of typing with the ... relationship between a speed typist ...