Measuring Your Real World Writing Speed

Many discussions in the Plover community center around writing speed:

• New starters often focus on how fast they can write, often posting their current top speed (in any test).
• New starters often want to work out when they will reach their "real world" speed (on a character-based keyboard) while using Steno.
• People creating stenography keyboards post videos on social media of successfully using those devices to write at above 200WPM.

This page is a repository of common ways to measure your writing speed. If you have a new method that you would like to add, please feel free to modify this page. The hope is that the community will eventually converge on a small number of indicative tests to measure speed.

RealWPM

TODO https://robertmassaioli.medium.com/a-realwpm-for-stenography-be94beffab20

ao10

TODO https://discord.com/channels/136953735426473984/1206012724031787019/1206037333011341374

Reuse Character based typing tests

TODO Explain how this is the least preferred of all the options for "real world" but probably where people will start anyway.