Fact · Typing and writing speed
6.5minutes
At 153 words per minute, 1,000 words take about 6.5 minutes to speak into a recognizer, before any editing.
Checked against its source on October 16, 2026
- What it measures
- The speed is the controlled-lab entry rate from the phone study, which counts finished text including corrections made during entry.
- How it is calculated
- 1,000 / 153 = 6.54, rounded to 6.5