WPM

[tinyjo]

So, I haven't tried WhatPulse yet but it did inspire me to do something I've been meaning to do for a while which is download a little gizmo which sits in my system tray and tracks my WPM. I've often vaguely wondered about it so I thought it'd be fun. I'm currently averaging 62 - I'm sure I can do better than that! It's too tiny to have statistics or anything like that, but it is quite groovy.

Edit: Hah! Told you I could do better - I was up to 92 WPM while filing a bug report just now :)

Comments

[soulsong.livejournal.com]

I average 68 wpm when my fingers are flying, which is distressingly slow really.

[celestialweasel.livejournal.com]

Interesting... there is definitely a division of the sexes here, very few male programmers / engineers seem to learn to touch type in my experience - so much so we have had some fun and games at work trying to get people with UK keyboards to enter text in spanish - surely remembering where the accented keys are shouldn't be so hard, but oh no, I have files of menu items, dialog text etc. without accents and print outs with the accents hand written on them- so on Monday or Tuesday I shall be making full use of my 18 years experience as a developer to go through and add the accents into the text.

I used this to great advantage at one job, where I had a French keyboard but the PC was set up as English - therefore as the only person who could touch type (apart from Maria)when I hit the top left key which was marked as A a Q would come out etc. Everyone else fled this PC with superstitious terror, and therefore LEFT IT ALONE, which was a Good Thing.