Professor John Sutherland, author and Emeritus professor of English Literature at UCL, said: “Typing is an incredibly important skill both in a personal and professional context. If it is a skill you lack, you are very much limiting your chances in the jobs marketplace.
“It is a skill in short supply at all levels in our education system and everyone should aim for a minimum speed of 50 wpm.”
Professional typists expect to average between 50 and 80 wpm though some jobs require speeds of 120wpm.
The Guinness Book of Records names the fastest typist as Stella Pajunas who hit 216 wpm in 1946 on an IBM Electric.
In 2005 writer Barbara Blackburn managed a top speed of 212wpm and maintained 150wpm for 50 minutes using a Dvorak Simplified Keyboard, which uses an alternative layout to the standard QWERTY one and is designed to reduce the amount of distance a typists’ fingers travel.
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