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wpm

  1. words per minute.


wpm

abbreviation for

  1. words per minute
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Example Sentences

His tail wagged, about a 200 on the wpm, or wags per minute, meter.

In fact, 10- to 19-year-olds type about 10 wpm faster than people in their 40s do, regardless of whether the keyboard was on a smartphone or a computer.

Grandma could type 120 wpm in an age of carbons, and said "when you can type 120 wpm with no mistakes they stop chasing you around the desk so much."

I high-five her after a record 30 wpm.

Foulke and his colleagues noticed that college students preferred recordings that had been sped up by 30 percent, from 175 wpm to 222 wpm.

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