Words per minute, commonly abbreviated wpm, is a measure of input or output speed.
For the purpose of typing measurement a word is standardized to five characters or keystrokes, including spaces and punctuation. For example, "I run" counts as one word, and "rhinoceros" and "let's talk" both count as two.
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“Don’t you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?”
—Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)
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