[Jeff_Brown]

That feels pedantic to me. A more important, but also more difficult, measure would be of information conveyed, regardless of how it's accomplished.

A very effective friend of mine once said if your messages are perfect you're spending the oo much time on them.

[D13Fd]

It depends on the context. If you write for a living, then one relevant metric is how quickly you type with no errors (although perhaps a better metric would be how quickly you get error-free work product out, including revisions).

If you're talking about who can send text messages to another person faster, then the "typos included" metric makes more sense.

[Izkata]

> the oo much time

Was that intentional? Looks like the other two replies may have read right past that without noticing it...

[martin_a]

"Measuring typing speed" is just silly, if you ask me. For the reasons you already pointed out.

Typing speed is not about understanding information to its fullest, it's just a somewhat quirky metric for the speed of replication of words.