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[–] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

Dude you're not hitting 80 WPM with pokey-poke

I worked with a dude that insisted his speed was insane and when we tested him and took errors into account, the actual WPM was more like 15.

E: anybody who doubts this, please recall that a word is five character average, so 80 words per minute, including shift, capitals, punctuation, numerals, means this person is hitting over 400+ Keys a minute... 7 Keys a second. Ain't going to happen with two fingers lmao... You can put your fingers on a desk, no keyboard, and you wouldn't be able to strike the desk 400+ times a minute with your fingertips. Pure delusion.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 months ago

    Idk exactly how the wpm calculation worked or if/how it accounted for errors. I just used those typing speed test websites, but I don't remember which. I know it would've been all lowercase, no numbers, and no punctuation, in a short, 30-60s burst. So I'm sure if you tested me under stricter conditions, my real speed would've been much lower.

    And I used both my hands, so 4 fingers, making it less than 2 presses per finger per second which seems reasonable.

    For my 95wpm, I tested my speed using the same conditions on monkeytype. But I did it again just now (30s, capitalization, punctuation, numbers) and got 73. I never bothered to learning numbers or symbols. Sorry, didn't mean to mislead lol.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    It's at the upper end of what is physically possible, but it is possible. It would look pretty weird watching someone do it, I imagine. This is basically what high end Starcraft players are doing, except with a mouse added in.

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  • [–] 0 points 5 months ago*

    StarCraft players have tons of different input styles, but most of them use almost every single finger. They're also not typing words, they're spamming the keyboard equivalent of arpeggios.

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