Words per minute (WPM) is a measure of typing speed, commonly used in recruitment. For the purposes of WPM measurement a word is standardized to five characters or keystrokes. Therefore, "brown" counts as one word, but "mozzarella" counts as two. The benefits of a standardized measurement of input speed are that it enables comparison across language and hardware boundaries. The speed of an Afrikaans-speaking operator in Cape Town can be compared with a French-speaking operator in Paris. Today, even Written Chinese can be typed very quickly using the combination of a software prediction system and by typing their sounds in Pinyin. Such prediction software even allows typing short-hand forms while producing complete characters.