What's a typical typing speed (wpm) in the US?
Median is 50 wpm. Most people fall between 40 wpm and 65 wpm. Above 85 wpm is top-10%.
What's a typical typing speed (wpm)?
The median US adult lands at 50 wpm for typing speed (wpm). The 25th-to-75th percentile range — what most people would call 'normal' — runs from 40 wpm to 65 wpm. Below 33 wpm you're in the bottom 10%; above 85 wpm you're in the top 10%.
How we computed this
We anchor at p1, p5, p10, p25, p50, p75, p90, p95, and p99 from public-data sources and linearly interpolate between them. See methodology for the full chain.