What our typing tests show
Numbers from the tests people take on CamelKeys, updated every hour.
Most typing sites tell you one number: your words per minute. CamelKeys also measures where the time in each test goes: how long you spent fixing mistakes, how long you hesitated at the start of each word, and how long you paused. Put together over many tests, those numbers say something about typing in general, not just about one person. This page publishes them.
Collecting. We publish these numbers once at least 1,000 tests are in, so that no finding rests on a handful of people. So far: 0 tests.
Speed by age
From saved results rather than the anonymous numbers above: the typists who gave a year of birth, each counted once with the median of their checked English tests. Nobody under 13 and no students in school classes are included, and an age group appears only with at least 30 typists in it.
Collecting. This table appears once at least 200 typists who gave a year of birth have checked English tests, with 30 or more in each age group shown. So far: 0.
How these numbers are collected
When someone finishes a standard test (common words, no punctuation or numbers mixed in), their browser sends us a few anonymous numbers: the speed and accuracy, the share of the test spent fixing mistakes, starting words and pausing, the hour and weekday on their own clock, and in English the three letter pairs that were slowest for them and by how much. We never receive the text that was typed, and these numbers are not linked to an account. Tests that do not look typed by hand are left out.
Speed is net speed: correct characters, spaces included, divided by five, per minute. Fixing mistakes is the time spent typing keys that were later deleted, and pressing Backspace. A slow word start is the extra time the first letter of a word takes, compared with the typist's usual gap between letters inside words. A long pause is a gap more than two and a half times the typist's usual gap (and at least three quarters of a second), counted beyond that usual gap; gaps over five seconds count as idle time and are included with the pauses.
What to keep in mind
The people who take tests here are not a random sample of everyone who types: they chose to take a typing test, many of them more than once. Short tests and long tests are mixed together. Each finding appears only once enough tests stand behind it, and the tables say how many tests each row is based on.
Using these numbers
You are welcome to quote and chart these findings in articles, lessons and research. Please name CamelKeys as the source and link to this page. For the full numbers or a question about them, write to hello@camelkeys.com.
Questions
How often is this page updated?
Every hour, from the tests of the past year.
Can I see my own numbers?
Yes: every test result shows where your own time went, and your profile shows your progress.