Typing might be the slowest way to work now

Happy Tuesday everybody!

Quick question.

Have you ever stared at a blinking cursor trying to figure out how to phrase something?

An email.
A Slack message.
A note.
A ChatGPT prompt.

You know what you want to say.

But typing it out takes way longer than thinking it.

The weird part is this:

Most people type 40–50 words per minute.

But when you speak naturally, you’re closer to 150–220 words per minute.

Which means for a lot of digital work…

the keyboard is the bottleneck.

And for a long time, voice typing wasn’t the solution either.

Old dictation tools were clunky.
They misunderstood words.
They produced messy, robotic text.

So most people gave up and went back to typing.

But AI is starting to change that.

Wispr Flow is basically voice typing that actually works.

Instead of just transcribing your speech, it also cleans it up in real time.

You can ramble naturally, and it turns that into clear, polished writing.

For example, you might say something like this:

Umm, hope your week has started well…I was talking to Cheyene earlier but reception was really bad and I think their going to handle the first part of the project, but I’m not totally sure…

Flow turns that into:

Hope your week is off to a good start. I was talking to Cheyene earlier, but the reception was really bad. I think they’re going to handle the first part of the project, although I’m not totally sure.

Same idea.

Just cleaned up automatically.

No filler words.
No awkward phrasing.
No editing required.

The biggest difference is where it works.

Flow runs in the background and lets you dictate inside almost any app.

Email
Google Docs
Slack
Notion
ChatGPT
Notes

Instead of opening a separate tool, you just talk wherever you're already writing.

And because it edits your speech as it transcribes, the output actually sounds like something you'd send.

Typing: ~45 words per minute
Speaking: up to ~220 words per minute

That’s roughly 4× faster.

For things like:

• emails
• notes
• journaling
• brainstorming ideas
• drafting messages
• prompting AI tools

Sometimes the hardest part of writing isn’t the idea.

It’s just getting started.

Voice removes a lot of that friction.

If you're in school, this kind of tool can be surprisingly useful.

Instead of typing out rough drafts, you can talk through your ideas first.

That works well for things like:

• outlining essays
• capturing lecture notes quickly
• brainstorming project ideas
• drafting discussion posts
• messaging professors or group partners

You can basically think out loud, then let the AI clean it up.

For a lot of people, that makes writing feel much less intimidating than staring at a blank page.

The keyboard has basically been the default interface for computers for 150 years.

But most of our work now is just turning thoughts into text.

If voice tools keep improving, typing everything manually might start to feel a little outdated.

Flow is one of the first tools I’ve tried that makes that shift feel realistic.

👉️ Try Wispr Flow

Catch you next week,
Max