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98 in bed on my laptop, 145 at my desk.

I was the nerd in school who naturally learned their own touch typing before the school really started teaching it at all. I use only 6 fingers for the letters, then right pinky is dedicated to shift work, and left thumb is dedicated to spacebar work. Right thumb and left pinky are totally idle (except left pinky will get Ctrl when I'm jumping through text).

Interestingly, I think my fingers actually have overlapping domains, so if my left index is nearby, it'll hit the d key first, but if it's been busy typing t or y then my middle finger will do it instead.

Very rarely am I thinking up words fast enough to want to type that fast. Maybe only if I'm in a very intense, fast chat with someone.

I usually average 175ish on my desktop keyboard with about the same accuracy, but this is what I can do on my laptop

We have typing enjoyers here? HELL YEAG! It's been a while since I practiced but I was somewhere between 90-105 WPM iirc. Honestly I don't really want to get much better with QWERTY, maybe 120 WPM would be a good goal, but I think it's much better to learn an alternate layout, there are a bunch of layouts that are very new and have better ergonomics and stats once you learn it. I was learning a NRTS-HAEI layout called Lucens which is a custom version of Gallium iirc that I found on the Alt Keyboard Layouts Discord server. I still have it setup on my PC with Kanata (layout customizer software) but it has been a while since I used it.

I've always been jelly of people who can do perfect touch typing with all 10 fingers.

You can learn! It's not that hard to learn proper touch typing, I remember having kinda the same type of typing you describe and years ago just decided to properly learn it, tho I usually only use my left thumb, not the right one and it's something I have to get better at.

Around 75, but it depends. If I’m going something I’m familiar with, it can go a little higher. If I’m copying from a sheet of paper, it could be slower. Tests rarely reflect real world typing. At work I can hit 200-250 with macros. I get people watching me and they’re just like “what the actual fuck are you even doing”. Like they had no idea you could use a computer like that. I’ve had people sit there and literally tell me a program is only meant to be used this one way. And the way I do it, they say it won’t work. And then it does. One person called it voodoo.

Wipes per minute?

Idk anymore since I have to type out each letter on a touchscreen like a sloth.

I switched out my silent smooth MS Sidewinder X4 for Bad..uhhh Red Dragon Uranus 87 Pro. Each has it's own feel and tactile experience. I enjoyed the X4 for it's silent and slick feel. After over 10 years of heavy strokes and hard pounding it is showing some scuffing.

The Uranus 87 Pro has a much more tactile feel. Each pound sounds satisfying and consistent no matter how hard and fast you stroke on it. I also love the wavy colors and texture at times over the smooth silent. Though might not be as household friendly as every stroke has this muted "pat pat pat" real ASMR. Not so noticable with sensory filling headphones but those in the other room might hear your sustained activity.

I did 3 pages and got up to 44 wpm. (35, 38, 44) It's good site for practicing muscle memory and anticipating your own brain-physical delays.

Every single apostrophe on a regional keyboard where they aren't really used is like Ü BACKSPACE * BACKSPACE '

Anglos would rather introduce some eldritch cursed not-character than just type out "I am"

After 3 tries I seemed to plateau around 120 wpm. I feel like my bottleneck was focus, I would misread or skip words, and then get stuck trying to fix the mistake. I think I used to be faster when I was in middle school and they made us use the "Type to Learn" game. But the speed isn't that relevant in adult life.

75 while laying in bed, think I can get to around 90 if I'm set up properly

Struggling to break the 90wpm barrier.

I think I need to swap to colmak to break past qwerty limitations

I can do 90-100 touch typing, but the real (completely arbitrary and made up by me) measure of typing skill is how fast you can type after removing all keycaps. I got around 50.

I typically float around 60. I feel faster than that but I make a lot of mistakes.

i fucking hate .com bubble domains like "typing.com" "pets.com" "pooping.com". anyway my top speed on a good day is around 120 wpm and it sucks because i cannot go further. my muscle memory has been limited to a shitty made-up style of 8 finger typing, and re-training it will just kill my productivity. my keyboard is also fucked (some key caps have popped out/been split in half) but that affects me less than the shitty typing style.

72 wpm with 97% accuracy

im too lazy to do it multiple times but i think i normally average around 80, the american spelling of some words messed me up :(

then again i dont type properly, i only use 8 of my fingers

like 85 wpm, 97% accuracy? i was a good student and accepted learning how to touch type when they tried to make us learn in middle school. i'm glad they made us, it's probably one of my more useful general skills.