Saturday, April 03, 2004
The most unfun game ever
This afternoon I decided to see if I could figure out how many words per minute I am typing. I figured it would be an important thing to know.
I searched "timed typing test" and came up with a site that would fit the bill perfectly--conveniently enough, it's typingtest.com. Pretty simple.
As it turns out, you can select your choice for times--up to three minutes--and one of four passages, including something from Huckleberry Finn. I took the test and ended up with 68 WPM, which I thought was rather respectable, as I was going to be happy with anything over 45. My completion accuracy was also something like 91%, which I didn't think was so bad, either.
When you finish you get the option of looking at the highest "scores," and that was when I realized that, for some people, typingtest.com is more of a game than a curiosity. A very important game, at that. It felt like Spaced Penguins all over again--I know what I would have to do to get 181 WPM with 100% accuracy, and it involves memorizing 181, 362, or 543 words of Huckleberry Finn (depending on the length of the test, of course), not to mention typing it all in....
Is this what pianists do when they've mastered Rachmaninov?
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