<story><title>The Joy of Typing</title><url>https://medium.com/message/the-joy-of-typing-fd8d091ab8ef</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nbouscal</author><text>&amp;gt; one 2007 study measured a small group of 21 college students and found their average typing speed was an abysmal 12.2 words per minute&lt;p&gt;That blows my mind. That&amp;#x27;s less than a tenth the speed I type at. How do they get anything done??</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Centigonal</author><text>I skimmed the study, and that statistic is a little misleading.&lt;p&gt;They weren&amp;#x27;t typing predetermined sentences. They were instructed to come up with a story based on some pictures and write it down. They weren&amp;#x27;t bottlenecked by typing speed, but rather by pauses for thought between words.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Joy of Typing</title><url>https://medium.com/message/the-joy-of-typing-fd8d091ab8ef</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>nbouscal</author><text>&amp;gt; one 2007 study measured a small group of 21 college students and found their average typing speed was an abysmal 12.2 words per minute&lt;p&gt;That blows my mind. That&amp;#x27;s less than a tenth the speed I type at. How do they get anything done??</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>beachstartup</author><text>i spent a lot of time on the net (irc) as a kid, and even then my typing didn&amp;#x27;t go above 50wpm until i actually sat down and taught myself how to type correctly, and then practiced deliberately.  i remember i went from 40wpm to 100wpm in a single summer.&lt;p&gt;most people never actually learn to type correctly, they just keep doing the wrong thing forever.  of course, once you actually learn to do it right, you&amp;#x27;re practicing &lt;i&gt;all the time&lt;/i&gt; and after several years you can easily get up to and past 120wpm if you sit in front of a computer all day.</text></comment>