Up to 3× faster: the simple math behind speaking instead of typing

The number sounds like marketing but it’s simple arithmetic. Average typing sits around 40 words per minute. Speaking is about 150. That’s a factor of 3.75, before you even subtract typos.

Where the time actually goes

The real loss isn’t raw typing speed, it’s the stalling: the cursor jumping back, the word you rearrange three times, the sentence you delete and restart. When you speak, you phrase it once. The software does the rest.

• An average email: typed ~4 minutes, spoken ~1 minute.
• Write 20 messages a day and you easily save an hour.
• The time saved is one thing, the focus you keep is another.

Faster doesn’t mean sloppier

The trick isn’t that you talk faster, it’s that you stop doing the work twice. You speak your thought, “um” and slips included, and get clean text back. No dictation mode where you say “comma new line” like a robot.