Fact · Typing and writing speed
120words per minute
The fastest typists in the online typing dataset of about 168,000 volunteers reached 120 words per minute or more.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“The fastest typists in the dataset reach speeds of even 120 WPM or more.”
Observations on Typing from 136 Million Keystrokes, Vivek Dhakal et al., CHI 2018, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018, Section 'Words per minute'.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3173574.3174220)- What it measures
- The figure comes from the same online dataset as the average and the thresholds.
- What it does not show
- The sample is self-selected and the test used short passages. The paper does not say how far above 120 the top speeds went.
Source
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