I was talking to Petruchio and others about typing speed the other day and to get a rough estimate of mine, I came up with a little program which I broke down to a one-liner:

perl -e'$x=time;print scalar(split/ /,<>)/(time-$x)*60'
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It returns the number of WPM (words per minute) you type. (Tested with Perl 5.6.1)

Suggestions to make this more accurate are very welcome.

Zenon Zabinski | zdog | zdog7@hotmail.com