Mastered the iPhone keyboard? Track your speed with a new website testing just that. Digg readers claim they’ve topped 40 words per minute, but then, I used my PowerBook keyboard and got 70, so take it with a grain of salt. If you’re actually an iPhone user, I’d love to know about your best score.
Via Digg.
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18 responses to “Test Your iPhone Typing Prowess”
I avereged about 21 wpm, I tried it a couple of times, but I just got my iPhone Sunday so we will see if I improve.
I’m very consistently getting 26 words per minute. I know I’d do faster on a regular keyboard, but I think I’d get around 6 wpm on a T9 version.
“My milk shake brings all the boys to the yard?” Doesn’t it throw off the test, people doing double takes and all?
I could teach you, but I’d have to charge.
I got 29 wpm on my first try, 27 on the second, that’s without any punctuation. I think the iphone’s keyboard is perfectly fine for typing sms messages or small notes, I wouldn’t want to type a huge email in it though. On my macbook, typing in Dvorak, I got 94 wpm, so I think 29 from my thumbs, in a keyboard layout I don’t usually use, is pretty good.
average between 27-33 wpm. with errors though.
90 wpm on my PB, 23 wpm with one index finger on the iPhone, and 28 wpm using my thumbs on the iPhone. For casual typing, I’ve had great success with the virtual keyboard, but it would take a lot of practice to build up speed/accuracy. BTW, I got some odd keyboard behavior trying to type this entry on the iPhone and had to move to the lappy. Odd.
I got 29, 26, 25 wpm, the faster time was ignoring capitals @nd punctuations.
I am an iPhone user and I got 70 words per minute.