How much time is saved by typing faster?

Typing faster does not change what you have to think, but it does change the time you spend typing. In an office of ten people going from 200 to 300 CPM, that is about 478 hours a year, around €12,500 in labor costs. In a school, a Primary student recovers about 29 hours of class time per school year. We explain the calculation and where each piece of data comes from.

Almost everything we do at work and in class goes through the keyboard: emails, reports, assignments, messages and, increasingly, the prompts we write to an artificial intelligence. How much time is that over a year? We have calculated it.

The calculation is simple

The time someone spends typing is the number of keystrokes they write per day divided by their speed. Someone who writes 8,000 keystrokes a day at 200 CPM spends 40 minutes with their fingers on the keyboard. If they increase to 300 CPM, they write the same in 27 minutes. They save 13 minutes a day, without writing a single word less.

In a company

Let's take a team of ten people working in an office:

Per person: 13 minutes a day, about 48 hours a year.
The whole team: 478 hours a year, about 60 working days.
In money: with the average labor cost in Spain (€26.18 per hour worked, according to the INE), that is about €12,500 a year of time freed up for other tasks.

In positions that involve a lot of writing, such as customer service or administration, the figure almost doubles.

In a school

In a school we do not talk about money, but about class time. A Primary student who has not learned touch typing writes a normal text, with capital letters and punctuation, at about 75 CPM. Kluppy students who reach the text phase finish the course at around 150. For a 5th-grade Primary student who writes about 300 words a day on the computer:

Per student: 10 minutes a day, about 29 hours per school year. That is almost six school days.
A class of 25: more than 700 hours of student work each school year.
Until finishing ESO: about 290 hours per student, because in Secondary they write more.

Where the numbers come from

Cost per hour: INE Quarterly Labor Cost Survey, second quarter of 2026.
Starting speed in the office: 200 CPM (about 40 words), typical for someone who has not learned touch typing. In the largest published study, with 168,000 people (Aalto University, 2018), the average was slightly higher, but it involved volunteers who already wrote more than average.
Students' speeds: our speed tests with students starting extracurricular activities in October 2026 and data from Kluppy extracurricular students between 2018 and 2026.
School days: 175, the minimum set by the Organic Law of Education.
How much is written per day: this is our estimate by type of job and grade. It is the data that changes the most from one place to another, so it is best to input your own.

Why it is a conservative figure

We only count the time with fingers on the keyboard. We do not add what is gained by making fewer mistakes, correcting less, or ending up less tired. Nor the fact that, when typing stops being an effort, attention stays on what you want to say and not on where each key is.

And with artificial intelligence?

AI writes many texts for us, but you do not just talk to it: you write to it. Every prompt, every nuance, and every correction goes through the keyboard. Anyone who types fluently asks it for things better and in less time.

Make your own calculation

We have turned this calculation into a savings calculator with two tabs, one for companies and one for schools. Enter the number of people or students, how much they write, and their speed, and you will see the result instantly, with the source of each piece of data.

Don't know how fast you type? Measure it for free with our typing test, of one, three, or five minutes and without registration. Then, calculate how much you would save.