What a show off!

Dvorak on Thinkpad T500 (laptop):

What ksm123 said. ;)

Tablet and iPod tests:

iPod touch 5th Gen:
10FF - thumb typing, portrait: 78 WPM, 422 keystrokes (391 correct, 31 wrong), 74 correct words, 7 wrong words

iPad Air:
10FF - touch typing, landscape: 138 WPM, 729 keystrokes (692 correct, 37 wrong), 133 correct words, 6 wrong words

iPad mini retina:
10FF - touch typing, landscape: 123 WPM, 643 keystrokes (614 correct, 29 wrong), 119 correct words, 6 wrong words
aoeu.eu - touch typing, landscape: 127 WPM, 635 CPM, 4 mistakes
10FF - thumb typing, portrait split keyboard: 86 WPM, 452 keystrokes (428 correct, 24 wrong), 82 correct words, 5 wrong words

Nexus 7 2013:
aoeu.eu - QWERTY thumb typing, Swiftkey portrait split keyboard: 74 WPM, 368 corrected CPM, 386 raw CPM, 4 mistakes
aoeu.eu - Dvorak thumb typing, Swiftkey portrait split keyboard: 51 WPM, 253 CPM, 277 raw CPM, 7 mistakes
Too small to touch type

@lite246, are you strumming those WPMs on the iPads touch screen?  Blimey.

170 WPM on Apple Wireless Bluetooth keyboard with QWERTY using shorthand for longer words:

True, but they're some of the most frequent words in English. I think they make up about 65% of all written material, so the faster you type them the better.

Thanks. 167 WPM is my record without shorthand, for higher speeds I've begun using shorthand so my fingers aren't actually physically going much faster.

Practice makes perfect. I've started a new thread.

172wpm without shorthand? Wow, I think maybe you're the fastest or almost on geekhack now?

Mine was 104 on qwerty and 108 on colemak and increasing (10FF).

If he's using steno (and it works on 10ff) he should be able to beat Sean Wrona as the max speed of a good steno user should be in the 200-350 range.

I'm curious Shaaniqbal, when you type do you use any alternative fingerings or other techniques? When finding websites about techniques all they ever do is repeat the mantra about home row and using all your fingers.  Most people are well past that, and people like you are well past most people that are past that ;)

So is any of your speed a product of your typing style (which you would be willing to share)? or are you mostly just crazy fast fingers?

I see. That makes sense.

When I make an error on the piano, I go back and overtrain that passage. I make sure to start well before the problem occurs and end a little after it's over to make sure I get the flow right, and repeat the phrase without error at least five times so the error is unlearned and the correct sequence learned well; if necessary I reduce speed at first and then train up to full speed again. I like the idea of that transferred to typing practice too, which is why I buy into the idea of backspacing the whole word.

I think Amphetype has an option of making lessons from the mistakes you just made, but I haven't tried that "on the fly" while typing texts because it gets too annoying for my tastes. It's nice to go back every now and then and review the most problematic words though.

Licks are a bit special. As you say, they're a short passage that's repeated and it should often be played very fast. When I practice the piano there will be passages like that, but it's something else with the whole. "As fast as possible" usually doesn't lead anywhere good when applied to the whole piece, in my experience, at least not until it sits really well in the fingers.

That said, practicing a short passage like that is useful and can likely be translated to typing training. In amphetype I've done something like that with the most common words. It's fun and feels nice and useful to me. I'll set a high threshold both on speed and accuracy, make a lesson with for instance four repeats of three words at a time and let the fingers fly until I pass each test.