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1,000 words on the keyboard: about 19.2 minutes

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19.2minutes

At 52 words per minute, the English keyboard speed measured on an iPhone, 1,000 words take about 19.2 minutes to type.

Checked against its source on October 16, 2026

What it measures: The source speed counts the finished text, including time spent correcting errors, measured on short phrases in a laboratory.
How it is calculated: 1000 / 52 = 19.2 minutes

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In the same controlled study on an iPhone, English text entered on the built-in QWERTY keyboard reached 52 words per minute, against 153 words per minute by speech.

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