What keyboard are you using and what is your WPM?

Wistful@discuss.tchncs.de to Android@lemmy.world – 84 points –

Typing test: https://monkeytype.com
I used Unexpected Keyboard

Any tips on how to improve typing speed? (without using word suggestion and autocorrect)

I'm interested in how fast people who swipe type are.

Also, do those keyboards like Thumb Key and FlickBoard have the potential "to be faster" than the standard keyboards?

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I just tried it with my swipe keyboard and the website didn't like it at all. It was double entering words randomly when I would otherwise type fine.

That said, I got 34 wpm and 95% accuracy, which is in line with me using a qwerty or Dvorak physical keyboard. I ain't no Speedy Gonzalez.

Do you touch-type with ten fingers and never hurt yourself? That's all that matters.

Lol, I'm just plain amazed at how fast some people can type. I am touch typing, but I guess I just got slow fingers!

I tried it with open board and had the same issue I'm never going back to non swiping but I miss swype everyday

Swype is great but every now and then I get "swypos" where I'll think I put the right word and I put something else there and the reader has to figure it out :)

Swipe typing used to be so good for me, but now I have to correct every third word, it feels like. And it keeps correcting to just the most random ass words. Why the hell would it correct "probably" to "pusillanimous"? I've tried multiple modern keyboards and they're all like this, I should download an old apk...

I really wish Microsoft would release the original swype again... Pretty sure I read somewhere that they're the current owners (due to acquisitions).

It carried on working for years and years without updates but finally died recently. I miss gestural copy and paste for sure

HP office keyboard from 2010 (The cadillac of keyboards), and somewhere around 90 WPM.

HP office keyboard on your android phone?

Didn't see which group I was in lol

I made the same mistake and was initially like "50wpm? Amateur." Once I saw it was Android, I shut my mouth with my 20wpm on my phone.

Unexpected keyboard also, never liked swyping to type, autosuggestion and things like that.

Also this is on cold when I just woke so my wpm is usually a but faster than this on mobile, while I have 100-110 on average on pc with regular qwerty.

SwiftKey wants to capitalize every first letter for some reason, so it gave me 0 wpm due to errors

43wpm, 95% accuracy, Gboard Dvorak no swipe

Fingers are a bit cold from just walking the dog, and I'm tired from getting off a 12 hour shift, have a feeling I could do better under different circumstances.

Haven't tested myself on a real keyboard in a long time, but once upon a time I could hit well north of 100wpm pretty consistently if I tried. When I tested myself in preparation for my current job about 5 years ago I think I usually hovered somewhere around 80-90 (911 dispatch, my agency requires at least 60 to pass the aptitude test, I wasn't worried about passing but I was curious where I was at since I hadn't been typing much at the time)

78wpm 92% gboard

~200wpm on a physical desktop keyboard

Pretty similar to you on mobile, gboard. I used auto correct too though. Desktop I'm not really much faster than this, maybe like 85 on a good day.

Thanks, everyone fornletting me kmkw aboit Florisbkard. Im always down to rey to nee opem source keyboard. It has perfext typing.

Edit: I honestly don't know how anyone could praise an early beta keyboard with no autocorrect and no paricularly compelling features over OpenBoard.

Yah, the Florisboard comments always weird me out. There isn't a chance in hell I'm using a keyboard without an autocorrect. Everyone must type perfectly with their thumbs except me.

I used to on physical keyboards. I would turn autocorrect on my LG Ally off because it was in the way more than anything else.

Onscreen keyboards exist because god is dead and satan is in charge.

I don't type with autocorrect. Last time I checked it was around the same speed as me using swipe, ~76 wpm.

I've recently started growing my nails so that has made it slightly harder. Not sure how people type with nails.

What keyboard did you use to type that comment? Looks like the autocorrect doesn't work. Or was that unexpected keyboard?

FlorisBoard, the one that so many comments are recommending. No idea why. It doesn't even have autocorrect yet.

You only need autocorrect if the keyboard is the wrong size, and florisboard can be adapted to your needs perfectly

That's quite the statement. My screen is only so wide, and you haven't seen how large my thumbs are.

Im using florisboard, im getting used to not having autocorrect but i think im doing ok so far. I believe autocorrect is in beta

Thats true. Maybe thumbkey is better for you? A standard keyboard is not made to use that space efficiently.

But relying on some automated often tracking process to correct what you "actually wanted to say" is very strange.

OpenBoard is FOSS and doesn't track you. You can disable the user dictionary if you consider that tracking.

I know how to proofread. The vast majority of the time it chooses the word I meant, and it's trivial to fix the mistakes. Without it, I can't get through two words without a typo, as evidenced by my original comment.

Caring that someone else requires autocorrect to be an effective communicator and calling their usage of it "very strange" is dick thing to say.

There is no autocorrect on pen&paper or hardware keyboards. If keyboards are that bad that you need it, they are bad.

Idk, it may just be because of the touchscreen.

My physical keyboard buttons are a liiiiittle bigger than my on-screen ones. WTF is wrong with you?

70 wpm: physical keyboard on mobile (blackberry clone)

Florisboard with no swipe, no word predictions, no autocorrection, no nonsense.

WPM? Fast enough. It takes more time to proofread, edit and attach files than to actually type, anyway, so I don't care about words per minute. Never have.

44 wpm.

I've tried a lot of different systems, and now I primarily use STT. Even with the things I have to change manually, it's still much faster for me to use STT than to swipe.

AnySoftKeyboard and got 54wpm 95% accuracy. Better than I thought I would get

Came here to see if there were any supporters for AnySoft Keyboard 😃

34/84% tops swipe or normal Gboard.

All swipe inputs other than Gboard have become immensely worse after the first few months of existing, and Gboard shortly after gaining the feature. Tap typing feels unaligned on every phone these days too. The suggestions for tap and the chosen word when swiping are often the most out there words nobody ever uses too.

lemme try rq

edit: gboard (firewalled ofc) got me this, i am guessing this is for sure faster that typing on my laptop, and i now am paying attention to my typing speed.

will be updated if i change keyboard's probably

67wpm 97% accuracy with chrooma keyboard and swipe. Switched to gboard and only got 54/87.

66 wpm, 94% accuracy with standard google keyboard.

To improve speed I'd suggest simply practicing. You'll get better over time!

50WPM, 100% accuracy with AnySoftKeyboard and no aids. This was the third try.

58 with stock apple keyboard (don’t know why I decided to post this comment in an android community lol)

Monkey type uses a very synthetic approach to measuring words per minute. I feel that allows everyone's numbers to be artificially high. Typing cat feels a bit more realistic.

My speed is garbage whether I just type or use the swipe. Mainly because unlike using an actual keyboard where I can get over 100wpm, I can't really touch type so I have to constantly switch between looking at the keyboard and looking at the text coming up.

46 WPM 98% accuracy GBoard. I fucked up on the final word lmao

63 wpm, 91% acc

Florisboard, I love that keyboard. I have to say I cant perfectly read mistakes on Monkeytype so some more of them

I was faster and more accurate in typing manually (~ 70 wpm) than with swipe typing with Gboard (~ 50 wpm) lol. Maybe I'm just more used to using FlorisBoard daily tho

71 wpm @ 91% accuracy with Gboard. Auto correct does some work on it though so ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Using an old Lite-On SK-1688U. I grew playing text based games (MUDs) and would highly recommend anyone who wants to get better at typing to play some of them in their spare time. They're free in most cases and have different themes/systems of play.

topmudsites.com

reddit.com/r/mud

just realized this was for virtual keyboards, so nevermind