Verified, sourced statistics on writing, reading, and grammar – every figure traced to primary research.
Academic Excellence
Updated for the 7th Edition (2024)
The average typing speed is 52 WPM on a physical keyboard and 36 WPM on a phone, per Aalto University studies of 200,000+ typists. See where you rank.
The average blog post is 1,333 words in 2025 – and shrinking for the first time in the AI era. What 912 million posts reveal about ideal blog length.
"Publicly" tops Oxford's 2-billion-word corpus of misspellings. See the full list, state-by-state Google data, and survey stats – every figure sourced.
The #1 grammar mistake is using the wrong word – 13.7% of all errors in a national study of 877 college papers. See the full top 20, ranked by real data.
Adults silently read non-fiction at 238 words per minute (Brysbaert, 2019). Full stats by age, grade, and medium – every figure with its primary source.
A novel officially starts at 40,000 words, but publishers expect 80,000–100,000. Verified word counts by genre, famous books, pages, and chapters.
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