Again frustrated with being unable to type properly while standing, and remembering how my (no longer usable) braille devices made doing so trivial, I wrote a comment praising the utility of braille input. Then I realized this was dumb, and did an experiment to put my braille typing speed against my qwerty typing speed, using a braille keyboard simulator.
I found that my qwerty speed was over 100WPM; there were no typoes in the test, but I’ve been known to double-capitalize, drop ‘e’s, and misplace ’h’s quite frequently in the wild.
My braille typing speed was ~76WPM, with an average of one typo every 10 words or so.
I looked up standard typing speeds for qwerty and smart phones, and found that my qwerty speed is above average (80WPM seems to be generally considered impressive), and Typing on Smart Phones is horribly slow, ~25WPM on average (Presumably this was compared with the ~50-70WPM professional qwerty average).
I couldn’t find stats on the average typing speed in braille, though this experimental app attempts something similar with touch-screens. See also chorded keyboards.
(I should also note that I’m out of practice with typing quickly in braille; I haven’t used a braille input device as a primary device since 2006. I’m also atypically proficient with braille in general. I also expect my qwerty WPM would be lower in the wild than when explicitly tested.)
Again frustrated with being unable to type properly while standing, and remembering how my (no longer usable) braille devices made doing so trivial, I wrote a comment praising the utility of braille input. Then I realized this was dumb, and did an experiment to put my braille typing speed against my qwerty typing speed, using a braille keyboard simulator.
I found that my qwerty speed was over 100WPM; there were no typoes in the test, but I’ve been known to double-capitalize, drop ‘e’s, and misplace ’h’s quite frequently in the wild.
My braille typing speed was ~76WPM, with an average of one typo every 10 words or so.
I looked up standard typing speeds for qwerty and smart phones, and found that my qwerty speed is above average (80WPM seems to be generally considered impressive), and Typing on Smart Phones is horribly slow, ~25WPM on average (Presumably this was compared with the ~50-70WPM professional qwerty average).
I couldn’t find stats on the average typing speed in braille, though this experimental app attempts something similar with touch-screens. See also chorded keyboards.
(I should also note that I’m out of practice with typing quickly in braille; I haven’t used a braille input device as a primary device since 2006. I’m also atypically proficient with braille in general. I also expect my qwerty WPM would be lower in the wild than when explicitly tested.)