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My typing speed in words per minute is:
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(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Saturday January 17 2015, @10:04PM
If I was downstairs, sitting at a desk, copying text using my LASER XT keyboard, I think I could do 55wpm. But I don't sit at a desk anymore because it makes my ass hurt. Copying text manually is obsolete, and I'm super slow at writing. And normally I use a bunch of different keyboards whose layouts are not in agreement. So in reality I am closer to 10wpm.
(Score: 1) by schad on Wednesday January 21 2015, @04:20AM
I'm around 110-130, depending on the text. It's the point where I start to have trouble reading fast enough to keep my fingers moving at full speed. My brain is the bottleneck; I've hit 165 for tests I've memorized well enough that my fingers can go on autopilot. I've never known any way to type except by touch. I learned in the first or second grade. It probably helps that I never had any bad habits to un-learn.
To address the keyboard layout problem, there's a free program called AutoHotKey you can download for Windows. It does a great many things; most relevantly, it allows you to remap your keyboard however you like. I got myself a HHKB2 a couple months ago, and I use AHK to replicate the layout on my laptop. It doesn't work perfectly because the HHKB layout doesn't precisely map to a regular keyboard, but it works well enough for me to get by. It might work for you too.