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Yup, having to type unseen text makes a lot of difference.

Here's what I personally use to test my keyboard setups: monkeytype.com.

My best is ~95 WPM and 100% accuracy.

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I like typing :)

Here's 163 wpm on a macbook keyboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ulK2VJdQpw

Here's 175 wpm on a custom mechanical keyboard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO-A8rVJDOM

No idea how they can type that fast with those long finger nails!

They increase stiffness. You hit the keys with the hard nail instead of the squishy flesh of your fingers, which reduces jitter and improves timing accuracy.

(I'm a fast typer, but not as fast as that one, also with long-ish --- around 0.050" --- fingernails.)

I actually keep my nails pretty short (they're only about 1 or 2mm past the furthest-out part of my fingertip) for typing reasons!

My speed gets a lot worse if I let them grow out, so I like to file them down regularly (instead of clipping them occasionally) to keep them at a length I'm used to.

It's weird, how it looks more effortless, the faster someone types. Well done!

I think at high speeds you do actually end up optimizing force per press and time spent on a key out of necessity. It's like cycling, where they say "it never gets easier, you just get faster", or in other words, they can do a lot more with the same amount of effort.

That's amazing. Do you do any wrist stretches or recovery tasks afterward? Is there a routine you do for prep?

Tried that and got 109 WPM with 100% accuracy on my Macbook Pro (non-butterfly) keyboard. I usually score around the 80s with regular sentences and punctuation on other sites though, so subtract 30% from the WPM results on this side to estimate a regular WPM.

I also felt scores were inflated compared to 10fastfingers when I first tried it. Tweak the default settings and it can be a lot more comparable.

Saw the article later, they use monkey type too. I would love to see them in the 30s test.

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