CPM
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The number of characters you type in one minute
- noun
- Specialized
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caracteres por minuto
- While it's impossible to calculate his YouTube earnings with any accuracy (without knowing his average CPM), he's certainly made at least a couple million dollars from his 1.35 billion views.
Examples
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During the typing test, I measured my speed as 250 CPM, which reflects the number of characters I typed in one minute.
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To improve my typing skills, I tracked my CPM, aiming to increase the number of characters I can enter each minute.
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After practicing, my friend was excited to share that her CPM improved to 190, showing her enhanced typing speed.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
CPM = C + P + M
An initialism (C P M) representing 'characters per minute'; the letters alone do not reveal the meaning to an average learner.
Etymology
CPM here comes from characters per minute, which simply means 'how many characters you type in one minute', so a higher CPM means faster typing.