Text #3640622

Many typists have not memorized the keyboard. Usually each key is labeled, so nontypists can hunt and peck letter by letter, relying on knowledge in the world and minimizing the time required for learning. The problem is that such typing is slow and difficult. With experience, of course, hunt-and-peckers learn the positions of many of the letters on the keyboard, even without instruction, and typing speed increases notably, quickly surpassing handwriting speeds and, for some, reaching quite respectable rates.

—from The Design of Everyday Things, a book by Don Norman

Active since October 7, 2017.
514 total characters in this text.

View Pit Stop page for this text

Leaders

View ranks through of 4,899
Rank Username WPM Accuracy Date
1. (joshua728) 218.47 99.6% 2023-10-16
2. Sean Wrona (arenasnow) 199.49 100% 2019-04-04
3. Sean Wrona (arenasnow2) 177.32 99% 2019-09-09
4. Shoemaker-Levy 9 (atthetop) 176.78 99% 2019-12-13
5. Han (han2000) 173.49 99% 2018-11-15
6. 🌹 Black Rose 🌹 (rosew... 173.21 99% 2020-02-02
7. (alpha_panda) 172.73 99% 2019-11-09
8. [NTM] Vielle (arc_sec) 171.27 99% 2018-06-17
9. fruitcase (iamslow103) 170.92 100% 2020-11-20
10. r (deroche1) 170.58 100% 2017-12-09
11. 🌹 Black Rose 🌹 (typi... 170.07 99% 2018-01-28
12. GINOO AND FLANEUR I LOVE YO... 169.62 99% 2018-12-21
13. schollie (schollie) 169.22 100% 2018-08-07
14. jse (dragoncityjose) 168.60 99% 2020-11-07
15. (mcaso123) 165.99 98% 2020-02-02
16. ANDREA (andreaak00) 163.94 99% 2020-07-20
17. SIDD ON TRAIN (1a2a) 163.58 99% 2018-11-19
18. (sidd_) 162.44 98% 2018-12-19
19. taran (slowaccount) 162.27 98% 2019-01-18
20. Noah (licahfox) 160.65 99% 2017-11-24
21. rain (rainnonquit) 160.55 100% 2019-01-29
22. burger flipper (melikepi) 160.28 99% 2023-05-12
23. Andrei (_son_) 159.46 99% 2020-10-05
24. just don't typo 5Head (jash... 159.41 99% 2020-04-08
25. YouTube: 8shaz8 (nonquit) 159.29 98% 2020-08-23
26. beat me if u can ; (bblaise) 159.06 100% 2018-07-31
27. artyyyyy (seckdaddy) 158.02 99% 2018-06-10
28. slow steno (steno_but_slow) 157.77 97% 2020-06-12
29. (delirious) 157.73 99% 2019-10-01
30. Nitro (nitro2029) 157.65 99% 2017-10-23

Universes

Universe Races Average WPM First Race
Default (English) 7,087 86.81 October 7, 2017
Long Texts 65 89.77 May 5, 2017
ᗜ Stenography 4 80.41 August 17, 2021
Instant Death Mode 3 99.73 October 17, 2020