How Fast Can You Go: Find Out Your Typing Speed
The ability to type quickly and accurately is an important skill in today's job market since most positions require individuals be able to efficiently input information into a computer. How do your typing skills stack up? Below are some sites you can use to find out.
Touch Typing: An Essential Skill
It used to be that a person could get by with limited typing skills in many industries. Many people even once utilized a 'hunt and peck' typing style whereby they identified and pushed individual keys using only a few fingers. This method not only limits typing speed, it's also mentally and physically fatiguing.
Today, of course, most people are proficient in touch typing. This method allows a typist to input information at a far higher rate while remaining focused on the content being produced. Not only is this style of typing more efficient, but it also allows typists to reduce strain on fingers and wrists.
Below are sites you where you can learn your typing speed. Note that words-per-minute (wpm) does not refer to actual words but strings of five keystrokes. For example, 'table' counts as one word but 'tablecloth' counts as two.