If you are doing a typing practice then you will or should see two scores. One for Speed and one for Accuracy, which I would imagine on most PCs you will have to scroll down the page a little to find.
That's what happens in typing Practice anyway when you type out other peoples quotes.
The main idea behind this is years old and is how typing is scored pretty much around the globe, to be honest.
Even when I was in the Armed Forces, typing out messages is very important, speed is great as long as your accuracy is good too.
For example, suppose you are handed a pre-coded message to send to someone.
To you, it would make no sense at all, to the receiver it would make no sense at all until it has been decoded by the Cipher Team.
An example of where accuracy is more important than speed is a message like this:
HHYDR DJSSK KEHRP SEVZX DTPDS JDKPT
TREDT DJSKS PPHRP SEYCD DNPDZ PQTRY
(The trend above could cover several pages!).
So you see, it makes no sense to you what so ever, however, get just one letter wrong and the whole message is useless to the end users.
I haven't seen any tests like this, but they are very good for teaching you to quickly type exactly what you see and not what you THINK you see, which in some normal letters could set a totally different meaning to the letter and make the difference between a sale or not, just as an example. There is a superb if a slightly bit inaccurate article written here on the website:
https://www.archive…Even though the link is shortened, it still works and takes you to the right article!
Personally, I rate accuracy above speed, for obvious reasons. However, some might be on here just for the speed, which is OK, providing their accuracy doesn't drop to the point of it being useless!!!
It is of course, totally up to you for what reason you are on here. To increase your speed, accuracy or both. Having said that, I don't like my accuracy to drop at all!
Hope this helps, certainly, if you are going for a job interview they will ask you for both scores, as they are essential to know so that they will be able to judge your typing skills. Any single score is useless without the accompanying second score. You would normally quote the speed followed by the accuracy score.
For example, mine hovers around the 40wpm 0 uncorrected errors.
I could speed up a good deal and have, but then my accuracy drops, so you need that accuracy score as low as possible if you take pride in your work :-)
Tell me if this doesn't make sense or you think differently, or you need further help with understanding the scores.
TrevorP
