Filed under: Text, Utilities, Windows, Blogging, E-mail, Productivity, Freeware
WPM Tray - monitor your typing speed
by Jason Clarke Oct 2nd 2006
WPM Tray is a new utility that was developed as part of the An App a Day project. As you all know, I love simplicity, and WPM Tray is simple, but fun. All it does is sit in your system tray, and monitor how quickly you type, giving a WPM number. Although the algorithm for determining your typing speed is admittedly over simplified, it's still very fun to see how you're doing as you're writing something. In fact, as I write this, I can't help but glance down to my tray to see how I'm doing. Right now it says I'm doing 96 WPM, but honestly that's only because it has a very forgiving algorithm, but I still feel pretty darn good about it! WPM Tray can also give you a 15 minute rolling graph of your typing speed. There's no installer, simply unzip it into a folder and run it. Why not?
