Fact · Typing and writing speed
52.9words per minute
In the text entry speed by input method dataset, the 6 published figures for “Brain-computer interface” have a median of 52.9 words per minute, ranging from 30.6 to 78.
Calculated from 6 data points on October 19, 2026
- What it measures
- Each figure is one row of the dataset: a published measurement for a stated group, traced to its source. The median is the middle value of the 6 figures for this group.
- How it is calculated
- Median of 6 values (30.6, 31.6, 49.7, 56, 62, 78) = 52.9.
- What it does not show
- Methods are measured in different studies with different people, phrases and error handling. A direct comparison is only fair within one study; the medians show the typical reported figure per method.
A statistic of the dataset Speech vs Typing Speed: Text Entry Rates Compared, calculated by code from its published rows.
Calculated from
- In a 2024 BrainGate study, one participant's copy task was decoded at his self-paced speaking rate of 31.6 words per minute.
- In the 2026 Nature Medicine study, the participant communicated with the speech BCI at home at an average rate of 56 words per minute over almost two years of use.
- In a 2026 copy task, the participant's silent speech was decoded at an average of 49.7 words per minute, with accuracy of 96.5 percent.
- In the same 2026 copy task, the participant's vocalized speech was decoded at an average of 30.6 words per minute, with accuracy above 99 percent.
- A second brain-computer interface study decoded attempted silent speech into text at a median of 78 words per minute with a median word error rate of 25 percent.
- A brain-computer interface decoded one participant's attempted speech into text at 62 words per minute, with a 23.8 percent word error rate on a 125,000-word vocabulary.