How can you display Typing Speed using Javascript or the jQuery library?

Question

I would like to add a typing speed indicator just below the textarea we use on our contact form. It is just for fun and to give the user some interactivity with the page while t

Answer 1

Typing speed is generally computed in words per minute minus a penalty for typos. To do this it seems like you'd need an inline spell-checker at the very least, plus some heavy lifting for languages and encoding schemes. (And then it starts to get complicated; when does the clock start, for instance? What do you do about people who are entering code? How about copy-and-pasting?)