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How fast does an LLM type?
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Using Claude 3.5 Sonnet Pro, I asked it to generate prose paragraphs.

Using a stopwatch, I started timing when I started seeing characters appear and stopped when the LLM stopped sending text. I figure that the latency is the same both ways so I do not need to compensate for that.

Run 1 - 6.4 sec - 252 words (2362 WPM)
Run 2 - 6.6 sec - 239 words (2172 WPM)
Run 3 - 7.5 sec - 273 words (2184 WPM)

So this gives us an average of 2240 WPM.

The current rough World Record is 305 WPM and stenographers will get about 212 WPM.

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