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40words per minute (fast typists)
The average typing rates of the study's participants on plain text were 23, 35 and 40 words per minute for the slow, average and fast typists.
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In the source's own words
“The average typing rates of our participants on plain text were 23, 35, and 40 wpm for the slow, average, and fast typists, respectively”
Model-based and Empirical Evaluation of Multimodal Interactive Error Correction, Bernhard Suhm et al., Proceedings of CHI 99, ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1999, Experiment design.
Open the original- What it measures
- Five participants in each typing-skill group. The rates measure typing plain text, not correcting dictation.
- What it does not show
- Measured in 1999 with a small sample. Current typists are not represented by these figures.
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