Typing Speed Test

About Typing Speed Test

This typing test gives you sixty seconds and a stream of ordinary English sentences. As you type, each character is marked correct or incorrect in real time, so you always know exactly where you are. When the clock runs out you get words per minute, raw WPM, and accuracy.

WPM here uses the standard definition: five keystrokes counts as one word, so 'the' and 'through' don't distort the measurement. Accuracy matters as much as raw speed — typing at 90 WPM with 88% accuracy is slower in practice than 70 WPM at 99%, because every error costs you a backspace and a broken rhythm.

How to play

1. Click the text area and start typing the sentence shown. The timer starts on your first keystroke.
2. Correct characters turn green, mistakes turn red, and the cursor shows your position.
3. Keep typing continuously — new lines feed in automatically, so you never run out of text.
4. You have sixty seconds. Your final WPM, raw WPM and accuracy appear when time is up.
5. Only your net WPM — speed after errors are accounted for — is saved as your personal best.

Five tips that actually move your score

• Accuracy first, always. Speed is a side effect of not making mistakes. Deliberately typing at 80% of your maximum for a week will usually raise your ceiling more than pushing hard does.
• Learn the home row properly. If your fingers leave ASDF/JKL; as their base, every key becomes a search. Proper touch typing is the single biggest jump available to most people.
• Look at the text, never your hands. Glancing down costs you the position you had memorised and doubles your error rate on re-entry.
• Read one or two words ahead. Fast typists are always slightly behind their own eyes; that buffer is what makes the rhythm smooth.
• Relax your hands. Tension shortens your reach and causes overshoot. Light, low key travel is faster and hurts less over an hour.

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