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Like any such question it depends.

Base: average person hand writes at about 33 words/min.

A study in 1999 by Karat C.M., Halverson C., Horn D. and Karat J. split average people in three groups, "fast" typists, this would be your average typist, even professional typists, average around 40 word per minute (wpm) "moderate" around 35 and "slow" typists around 23 wpm. That said, some data entry jobs, especially time-sensitive data-entry jobs require that employees type at around 80-90wpm.

It is rare, but there are typists who exceed 120wpm, and i think the record still stands from 1946 at a pretty staggering 212 wpm.

(Note: word is standardized to 5 characters)

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