Typing Speed in comparison to Cubing Speed

[Matt]

Typing speed: ~70 wpm (I started typing when I was 8)
Cubing speed: ~19-21 seconds (I've speedcubed for maybe 8 months)

Honestly, I find little relation between the two. While both focus on quickly executing motions with your fingers, the mental processes of them are very different in my opinion. When I was 11, I averages 85 wpm because I played SO much MMO. It didn't make me any better at cubing (I avged 1:30 beginners method on a storebought lol). Both can be improved independently of each other. The improvement of one of the two will hardly affect the other.

 

[nlCuber22]

Oh, cool I forgot about this.
As a comparison,
3x3 cube average: about 12 seconds (cubing for 1 year 3 months)
Typing speed: 105 WPM (typing for about 8 years)
I think gaining TPS may have helped me speed up in typing.

 

[timeless]

Typing Speed: 80 wpm (7 years exp)
Cubing Speed: 1.30 min (1/2 yrs exp)

 

[uberCuber]

Typing speed 85-95 wpm; first learned to type when I was ~7 or 8
Cubing Speed 16-17 seconds large averages; cubing for 9 months

Note that I have never really taken typing speed seriously and actually made any effort to try to get fast.

EDIT:

Your speed was: 97wpm.

You made 1 mistake

 

[gymnerd]

Typing speed: around 85-95 wpm, although I currently caption for the deaf and hard of hearing for a living and I can type much faster when listening to someone talk.
Cubing speed: currently averaging around 23-25 secs. I guess it's been about 7 months now cubing

 

[masteranders1]

Cool, I'll add my times and blahblah.

Cubing speed: ~18-19 sec (cubing for 10 months)
Typing speed: ~62 wpm (typing for ~9 years)

 

[AvidCuber]

Cubing speed: 16-17 seconds (speedcubing for about a year)
Typing speed: ~100-105 wpm (touch-typing for about 5 years, touch-typing on current keyboard layout (Dvorak) for about 6 months)

I don't really think there's much of a relationship between the two. Maybe my tps has increased my wpm, but I don't think that my wpm would have increased my tps.

 

[Magix]

103 wpm, 2 errors -> 101 wpm according to typingtest

3x3 average: 58 seconds. ^^

They definitely have something in common, you practice your fingers heavily when doing both.

 

[izovire]

Typing - 78 wpm (11 years)
Cubing - 17 avg. (2-3 years)

Niether of these has improved one another. I think it all comes down to practice and simply maintaining your skills. You can definitely get fast at anything as long as you're dedicated.

 

[Kian]

Typing - just took a test and got 103wpm, not sure how accurate that is (since 6th grade so I guess 13 years now)
Cubing- ~14 sec average (just over 4 years)

My current resume says I'm a 70wpm typist. Guess I can change that estimate. Or delete it because my typing speed is no longer meaningful to my career lol.

 

[goatseforever]

I don't see why one would be beneficial to the other, but:
Typing 94 average WPM, via Typeracer
Cubin 17.xx average

Have never gone any formal typing training or practice. But I do talk a ton of **** over online games, which probably helped :S

 

[Ranzha]

Typing speed = 70ish WPM
Cubing average = low 16
I don't see any correlation.

 

[Rinfiyks]

Cubing: 25 s

http://www.typingtest.com/

How does my speed compare?
Your adjusted speed of 70 WPM was
94% above the average 36 WPM.

With the one minute test on Wizard of Oz.

Edit:

Very slight correlation, but it doesn't look significant. Sorry for the slow cubers who didn't fit on the graph!

 

[nlCuber22]

Maybe a better comparison would be TPS/WPM.

 

[uberCuber]

Maybe a better comparison would be TPS/WPM.

I don't know how to figure out my average TPS though, because by the time I finish a solve, I have already forgotten how I did the F2L, and sometimes even the cross, so I can't reconstruct it. And I have no kind of camera or anything to video the solve to help with reconstruction. The only TPS I can figure out is TPS for algs

 

[Xishem]

Average WPM: 130-140
3x3 Average: 21

Typing since I was 5, cubing for about a year now.

I think one of the best measures of this would be to become fluent in something like a PLL time attack or a pre-prepared solve and see what kinds of max TPS you hit.

 

[timeless]

I don't know how to figure out my average TPS though, because by the time I finish a solve, I have already forgotten how I did the F2L, and sometimes even the cross, so I can't reconstruct it. And I have no kind of camera or anything to video the solve to help with reconstruction. The only TPS I can figure out is TPS for algs

have someone to watch over u

 

[y235]

Typing: 24 WPM
Cubing: 3 TPS (I guess so. My CFOP is ~65 moves.)

 

[andrewgk]

Typing speed: 105 wpm.
Cubing Speed: about 50s using the layer by layer method.
Typing since I was 8-ish (now 18).
Cubing for 4 weeks.

 

[uberCuber]

have someone to watch over u

I don't have any cuber friends.
I do like the sound of Xishem's idea though, doing PLL time attacks or a prepared solve or something like that.