Fact · Typing and writing speed
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The Carnegie Mellon keystroke benchmark collected timings from 51 people, each typing a password 400 times.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
In the source's own words
“We collected data from 51 subjects typing 400 passwords each”
Comparing Anomaly-Detection Algorithms for Keystroke Dynamics, Kevin S. Killourhy and Roy A. Maxion, Carnegie Mellon University, Dependable Systems Laboratory, 2009, Abstract.
Open the original- What it measures
- The dataset is the shared test set later keystroke studies use to compare identification methods.
- What it does not show
- One fixed password typed in a lab. It does not show how well typing identifies people when they write free text.