Typing Test
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A typing speed test that shows both your raw and your real WPM.
- Start typing the passage — the clock starts on your first keystroke.
- Keep going until the time runs out; wrong characters are marked as you go.
- Read your speed and accuracy, then restart for a fresh passage.
Words per minute
After mistakes
Accuracy
Characters
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About this tool
A typing speed test that starts the moment you type and stops when the time is up. It shows your words per minute, your accuracy, and — the part most tests leave out — both the raw speed and the speed after mistakes are taken off. Those two numbers are usually a long way apart, and the second one is the one that describes how fast you actually get work done. A word here is five characters, including the space after it. That is the standard definition every typing test and every job advertisement uses, and it exists because words differ in length: counting actual words would make a test full of short words score higher than the same typing on a test full of long ones. So 250 characters typed in a minute is 50 WPM, whatever those characters were. The passage is built from two hundred short everyday words, shuffled fresh each time, rather than a pangram or a paragraph of Lorem Ipsum. Typing “the quick brown fox” quickly proves you can type that sentence; common words in an unfamiliar order is what the number is supposed to measure. Nothing is recorded anywhere. There is no account, no leaderboard and no upload — the test runs in your browser, and when you close the tab the result goes with it.
Frequently asked questions
How is WPM calculated?
Characters typed divided by five, divided by the minutes taken. A “word” is five characters including the space, which is the standard every typing test and every job advertisement means — counting real words would let a passage of short words flatter you against exactly the same typing on a passage of long ones.
What is the difference between raw and net WPM?
Raw counts everything you typed; net takes off the characters you got wrong. The gap between them is the interesting number: 90 raw and 60 net means a third of the work was undone, and in real writing that is worse than typing 65 correctly, because every mistake has to be found and fixed. Most tests show one figure and do not say which it is.
What is a good typing speed?
Around 40 WPM is an ordinary adult who did not learn to touch-type; 60 to 70 is a comfortable touch-typist and what most jobs asking for “fast typing” actually want; above 100 is unusual. Accuracy matters more than the headline figure — 95% at 60 WPM beats 85% at 75, both in a test and at a desk.
Does it correct my mistakes?
No, and that is deliberate. Wrong characters are marked in red and stay wrong, because a test that quietly fixes them measures something you cannot do without it. You can backspace over a mistake and retype it, which is what you would do in real writing.
Where do the words come from?
A fixed list of two hundred short, everyday words, shuffled fresh for each test. Short and common on purpose: the point is to measure how fast you type, not how fast you read, and an unfamiliar or long word turns the test into a reading exercise. It is not a pangram and not Lorem Ipsum — “the quick brown fox” is a sentence you can learn, and Latin measures how accurately you copy shapes you do not recognise.
Is my typing sent anywhere?
No. It never leaves the page — there is no account, no leaderboard, and nothing stored. Which does mean the result is gone when you close the tab, and that is the trade: a score worth keeping would have to be a score somebody else was holding.
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