Question - Calculating WPM

[DutchGreek]

Why does it for example say 23 correct words if you have 40 WPM?
I typed 40 words in that minute.. so I don't get that 23 correct words (with 0 mistakes) explaination?

[ZappX]

Check out the FAQ:

http://10fastfingers.com/faq

One WPM equals five keystrokes for the standard 10fastfingers one minute test.

[DutchGreek]

Does it mean that I got 27 words correct but it counts as 44 WPM?

[Kanto-Dream]

In fact, the numbers of words it shows is... The number of words you typed.

But the WPM is not this number!
Each word contains n letters, and your WPM is the sum of all the letters you typed, divided by 5

[1963]

In 'the old days' a word was considered 5 characters. I create my own text (mostly from public news articles and words I use most often: business, finance, medical).

Most of these have a considerable percentage of words of more than 7 characters and that seems to affect the length of the testings I create.

Let me clarify:

I created a 2 minute timing for 70 WPM = 140 words. But when I performed the testing, this is what it reads for a 142 word block:

72 WPM, 2:25 minutes.

So, is the larger percentage of longer words increasing the overall word count?

[Linsk]

1 WPM = 5 correct keystrokes.

70 WPM during 2 minutes = 700 correct keystrokes.

72 WPM during 2:25 minutes = 870 correct keystrokes.

[1963]

Thanks! I think Word counts by spaces and not by characters and that caused my confusion.

[ZappX]

We can continue to use this topic for questions about WPM. As mentioned in the 10fastfingers FAQ, one word equals five characters/keystrokes. "Space" counts as a character/keystroke.

Here's the general formula to calculate WPM:

WPM = Words per minute
Words = w
Characters = c
Minutes = m
Seconds = s

WPM = w/m = (c/5)/(s/60) = 12*c/s

[benty]

Hi,The 2 important parameters are included in the Typing Speed WPM. Every test will result with correct word spell count and incorrect word spell count. This helps all the users to concentrate and perform better with each word per minute test. The result will be displayed with the following parameters

WPM (words per minute)
Keystrokes (Key strokes is nothing but number of keys pressed while typing)
Correct word spell
Incorrect word spell
Raw speed
Accuracy
Error Rate
Time Taken

The Average WPM speed is 39 – 41 words per minute. However this is based on easy English vocabulary. When compared with punctuations, the average speed results in 20-22 words per minute. Therefore, one can judge their typing speed based on these statistics. However to become an expert touch typist, one should make around 48-50 words without punctuations and 26-28 with punctuations.