18 Feb 2025 - Perfecting My Typing Skills

So as you might tell from my monkeytype, I've been typing for a couple years at this point - I started learning in fall 2020. I'm a pretty fast typer if I do say so myself, but I could always be faster. So here's a ton of rambling and speculation about how much faster I could probably get.

In Fall 2020, I started learning how to touch type with EduType. My first test came out at 18 WPM. By the time I had finished the course, I hit around 40 WPM. I created a monkeytype account after seeing Glarses use it in a video, and I remember first testing out somewhere in the 50-70 WPM range. The following is my words 10 PR history. I hit 100 WPM sometime in 7th grade, and I don't remember much from 8th. In 9th, I was around 160, and now I'm at 200. (I don't do a lot of monkeytype during the summer break)

I'm really good at fluking THE WRONG TESTS. My PRs for 30s and 120s are very close to that of 15s and 60s respectively, despite the test length being double the duration. With these scores in mind, here's some projecting of what my 15s and 60s scores should actually be, based off of my 30s and 120s scores. My 15s score is usually 10+ wpm higher than my 30s, which is 10+ wpm higher than my 60s, and so on. So my 15s score should be around 170 WPM, and my 60s should be at least 140 WPM.



My year-over-year improvement is pretty good, I think. The start of the last school year, my personal best for words 10 was 150 wpm, now I can keep that speed up consistently for 15 seconds if I really try. My average typing speed increases at around 25 wpm per year, and approximately +2 wpm per hour spent typing. I'm honestly surprised that I don't have more hours on monkeytype considering that I'm nearing the 4 year mark since creating my account.