Words per minute

Words per minute, commonly abbreviated WPM, is a measure of words processed in a minute, often used as a measurement of typing speed or reading speed.

For the purpose of typing measurement, each word is standardized to be five characters or keystrokes long in English, including spaces and punctuation. For example, the phrase "I run" counts as one word, but "rhinoceros" and "let's talk" both count as two.

As an average English word consists of about 4–5 letters, characters per minute (CPMn), a measure of characters processed in a minute, is normally 4 or 5 times larger than WPM, so that 20 WPM are roughly equal to 80–100 CPM (not including spaces, which must add 20 to that).

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Brandon Raziano found that one study of average computer users in 1998, the average rate for transcription was 33 words per minute, and 19 words per minute for composition. In the same study, when the group was divided into "fast," "moderate," and "slow" groups, the average speeds were 40 wpm, 35 wpm, and 23 wpm, respectively.

WPM

WPM most commonly refers to Words per minute, a measure of how many words a person or system can read or write in that amount of time.

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