Typing tax calculator
Prompts, PR descriptions, Slack threads. None of it is code, and all of it goes through your keyboard at about 60 words a minute. Put in a rough day and see what it adds up to over a year.
Hours a year typing prose
161hours
That's 4.0 working weeks, or 42 minutes every working day, spent typing 579,600 words.
| AI prompts | 102 h |
|---|---|
| PR descriptions and commit messages | 20 h |
| Slack and Teams messages | 38 h |
Dictated with Voca, that's about 8.1 hours of audio a month, pauses included. The first 5 are free; pay-as-you-go covers the rest for about $0.31 a month, or Pro is $6 for unlimited.
The working
Four lines of arithmetic. Nothing you enter leaves your browser.
For each row, messages a day times words in each, added up, times your working days.
Words a year divided by your typing speed. 60 wpm is an above-average typing-test score, and people compose prose slower than they copy text, so the default flatters the keyboard.
The same words at 150 wpm, a normal conversational pace. It doesn't count pauses, so treat it as a best case.
Hours divided by 40.
5 hours of free transcription every month. That's about 30,000 spoken words, typed into whatever app your cursor is in. No card required.