Words per Minute Measure
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A Words per Minute Measure is a linguistic performance measure.
- Example(s):
- See: Reading Speed, Speaking Speed.
References
2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/words_per_minute Retrieved:2017-6-27.
- Words per minute, commonly abbreviated WPM, is a measure of words processed in a minute, often used as a measurement of the speed of typing, reading or Morse code sending and receiving.
Since the length or duration of words is clearly variable, for the purpose of such measurement, the definition of each word is often standardized to be five characters or keystrokes long in English, [1] including spaces and punctuation. For example, under such a method applied to plain English text the phrase "I run" counts as one word, but "rhinoceros" and "let's talk" would both count as two.
- Words per minute, commonly abbreviated WPM, is a measure of words processed in a minute, often used as a measurement of the speed of typing, reading or Morse code sending and receiving.
- ↑ Ahmed Sabbir Arif and Wolfgang Stuerzlinger. 2009. Analysis of Text Entry Performance Metrics. In Proceedings of the IEEE Toronto International Conference–Science and Technology for Humanity (TIC-STH '09). IEEE, Washington, DC, USA, 100-105.
2017
- (Wikipedia, 2017) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/words_per_minute#Speech_and_listening Retrieved:2017-6-27.
- Audiobooks are recommended to be 150–160 words per minute, which is the range that people comfortably hear and vocalize words. [1] Slide presentations tend to be closer to 100–125 wpm for a comfortable pace, auctioneers can speak at about 250 wpm, and the fastest speaking policy debaters speak from 350 to over 500 words per minute. Internet speech calculators show that various things influence words per minute including nervousness.John Moschitta, Jr., was listed in Guinness World Records, for a time, as the world's fastest speaker, being able to talk at 586 wpm. He has since been surpassed by Steve Woodmore, who achieved a rate of 637 wpm.
2010
- (Ash et al., 2010) ⇒ Sharon Ash, Corey McMillan, Delani Gunawardena, Brian Avants, Brianna Morgan, Alea Khan, Peachie Moore, James Gee, and Murray Grossman. (2010). “Speech Errors in Progressive Non-fluent Aphasia.” Brain and language 113, no. 1
- QUOTE: ... their overall speech rate in words per minute was one-third that of controls ...