Fact · Typing and writing speed
26words per minute
In the same online study, the slowest 10 percent of typists were those below about 26 words per minute.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“Slow Typists are those whose performance is among the slowest 10% (less than approx. 26 WPM in our data)”
Observations on Typing from 136 Million Keystrokes, Vivek Dhakal et al., CHI 2018, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2018, Section 'Typist Groups'.
Open the original (DOI 10.1145/3173574.3174220)- What it measures
- The same grouping as the fast-typist threshold, applied to the online sample of about 168,000 volunteers.
- What it does not show
- Self-selected online volunteers. The threshold describes this dataset and is not a national norm.
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