Uh, count every word then subtract the ones with errors -- that's the way I was taught.

(Mathias Baden is the editor of the Jordan Independent. He can be reached at editor@jordannews.com.)

I once took a typing test at a temp service and they counted every keystroke -- so the fact that I backspaced to correct a word meant that each backspace counted as an error.

Even though I finished the typing assignment under the maximum alloted time, it basically said I typed about 12 words a minute because of the errors.

I must say that I've greatly improved since then -- plus I don't backspace so much with spellcheck (or something) fixing some of the words as I go.

A sports editor I worked with in Indiana only uses two fingers to type and he types faster than most "normal" typists I know. It's like speed hunt-and-pecking.