Fact · Voice and AI
6.3correct words per minute
In the 2024 BrainGate study, the participant typed with a gyroscopic head mouse at 6.3 correct words per minute, with a standard deviation of 1.3.
Checked against its source on October 17, 2026
In the source's own words
“His typing speed using his gyroscopic headmouse (Zono 2, Quha, Nokia, Finland) is 6.3 ± 1.3 correct words per minute”
An accurate and rapidly calibrating speech neuroprosthesis, Nicholas S. Card et al., medRxiv preprint, deposited in PubMed Central (later published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 2024), 2024, Results, participant background and typing speed.
Open the original (DOI 10.1101/2023.12.26.23300110)- What it measures
- The head mouse is a device that moves the cursor with head movements, and it was the participant's own method of typing when the study was done.
- What it does not show
- One participant with severe dysarthria and tetraparesis. It shows how slow one assistive method was for him, not what typing speed people with other conditions reach.