
As for the accuracy of what we are typing? The average is 92%, meaning per 100 words, there will usually be around 8 misspelled words. Males tend to type faster than females, averaging 43 wpm (words per minute) instead of 37 wpm for the opposite sex. If you are a student, that means your pesky 1,000-word essay should be completed within 35 minutes. That equates to one word being typed every 1.3 seconds, which sounds quite quick. This means that every one of the Fastest Typist Competitors will have a placing on a scoreboard, and those competitors who have a higher level of keyboard skills will achieve the rank of Winner, Champion or Famer and will compete within that level.Off the top of your head (don't cheat), what would you say is the average words typed per minute? 30 words? 70? 130? Well, the answer is 41.

These are all skill-based competitions and in recognising that there are typists who have average skills and those who have varying levels of super-skills, have designed a league structure.

Since starting their speed typing competitions in April 2020 with their first Weekly £10 Prize Fastest Typist Competition, has expanded their range of cash prize competitions to include a Monthly £30 Prize Fastest Typist Competition and, from 1st December 2021, they will be running a Daily £5 Prize Fastest Typist Competition, initially on Wednesday each week. With the quality line up that we have of the world's best and fastest typists competing against each other there’s a good chance that we might see that record broken.”ġ03 Cash Prize Speed Typing Competitions To Date, and Counting “The current world record for one minute of typing is 170 WPM with 100% accuracy.

One group of competitors are the Invited Champions, the second group of competitors is made up of a limited number of wildcard entrants, these are competitors who took part in one of our Weekly Fastest Typist competitions but didn’t win.” That’s why our Weekly Champions £100 Big Match speed typing competition is two competitions in one. We’re not just here for the fastest typists in the world, we want to give everyone a chance of winning something. “Our speed typing competitions give those gamers, and ordinary typists, a chance to earn money from their typing skills by winning cash prizes. We’re returning to that age of competitions, where fast typists are celebrated and rewarded with cash prizes for their extraordinary skill, their amazing hand-eye-brain co-ordination and their determination to be the fastest and the best.” In fact, there are hundreds of millions of people across the world who use their fast-typing skills every day, gaming on PCs. As Sean Wrona says, there are more people interested in fast typing than NASCAR. “There’s an excellent new book, ‘Nerds Per Minute’, by Sean Wrona, a man often described as the Fastest Typist in the World, which in part recalls that age of innovation and the excitement that surrounded speed typing competitions. Tony Rust, Managing Director of Better Skills, Better Life Ltd, the company behind, explains, ‘We’re aiming to revive the excitement that people felt about typing contests and typing championships that took place when typewriter companies were trying to out-do each by claiming ever higher speed records that could be achieved using their machines”. These include a Professor from China, a Dutch MA in Conflict, Security and Development, and a 16-year-old hot shot fast typist from the UK.īig Match Competition Starts 14th November 2021 8pm GMT

Tony Rust - Managing Direct Better Skills, Better Life LtdBLACKPOOL, LANCASHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM, Novem/ / - There’s a stellar line up of elite typists from around the world taking part in the speed typing contest of the type that harks back to the early part of the last century.
