I don’t recall what prompted me to think of this, but I recently realized that I hadn’t checked lately to see how fast I could type. In the past I remember being able to type somewhere between ninety and just over one-hundred words per minute, however, even though I type quite a bit on a regular basis, I generally don’t try to type as fast as I possibly can and don’t pay much attention to how fast I am typing. Also, I often type while doing other things such as watching TV or between bites of food.

Anyway, I decided to find out what my current typing speed is and located this site that has some typing tests that you can take for free online. The options that I used for the test were:

- 3 min.
- The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
- WPM

I took the test twice and had the following results:

Net Speed: 82 WPM
(words/minute)
Accuracy: 98%
Gross Speed: 83 WPM
(words/minute)

Net Speed: 85 WPM
(words/minute)
Accuracy: 94%
Gross Speed: 90 WPM
(words/minute)

While these results aren’t necessarily anything worth bragging about, and certainly nothing near the 120+ that Jason occasionally brags about, I don’t think this is too shabby.

Now, for the fun part…the challenge. Take the test and post your results in the comments, let’s see just how shabby my typing speed is or if it compares pretty closely with the rest of my fellow bloggers.

To spice things up and encourage some participation, anyone who posts their results in the comments before my server says that it is June 21, 2008 will be entered into a drawing. One lucky commenter will be given their choice of advertising (125×125, 468×60, or Text Link) for the month of July.