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It's off course hard to find the average typing speed of everybody who types, but Wikipedia says this:

> An average professional typist types usually in speeds of 50 to 80 wpm, while some positions can require 80 to 95 (usually the minimum required for dispatch positions and other time-sensitive typing jobs), and some advanced typists work at speeds above 120 wpm.[4] Two-finger typists, sometimes also referred to as "hunt and peck" typists, commonly reach sustained speeds of about 37 wpm for memorized text and 27 wpm when copying text, but in bursts may be able to reach much higher speeds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Words_per_minute



Huh. I type at 100 wpm and am the slowest of a group of a few friends, the others can do 120-130 wpm. I guess that skewed my perception.


You and your friends are probably programmers (or similar) and have been touch typing for decades. It's always easy to forget the selection bias of self-organizing groups.




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