Typing Test

Test your typing speed in words per minute, with accuracy, mistakes by key and a per-second chart.

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Length

PunctuationNumbersShow timer and speedSound

60 s

Type the words on screen and see your speed in words per minute, your accuracy, and where the time and the mistakes went: a chart of every second and the keys you miss or reach for slowest. Tests run from 15 seconds to 10 minutes, or for 25 to 100 words, on random common words or on passages of ordinary prose.

Nothing you type leaves your browser. Your best result in each mode is saved on this device only.

What the results mean

WPM — your speed in finished words. A wrong key never goes into the text, so every finished word is correct, and WPM measures usable text, not keystrokes. It shows as a whole number, with one decimal in the detail.
Raw WPM — every key you pressed as a speed, wrong keys included. The gap between raw and WPM is the speed lost to errors.
Accuracy — the share of key presses that were right. Every wrong key counts against it, a second or third on the same letter included, so 100% means no wrong key at all.
Consistency — how even your pace was from second to second: 100% is perfectly steady, and it drops the more your speed rises and falls.
Correct / wrong keys — every key press, split by whether it was the one the text asked for.
Keys missed most and slowest keys — where to practise. A capital counts with its small letter, as one key. The time for a key is the wait before it was pressed correctly, averaged over at least three presses; the space bar is left out, since the pause before it is the end of a word.

Options and keys

Text — Words gives common English words in random order; Passage gives prose in order, running on into the next passage if a timed test outlasts it. Punctuation (capitals, commas, full stops, quotes and contractions) and Numbers apply to Words only.
Length — 15 or 30 seconds, or 1, 2, 3, 5 or 10 minutes (1 minute by default); or 25, 50 or 100 words, which ends on the last letter of the last word.
Starting — the timer starts with your first key. With a mouse the text is ready to type into as the page opens; when it is blurred, click it, or tap it on a phone.
Mistakes — a wrong key does not move you on: the letter you should have typed turns red and waits for the right key, and each further wrong key shakes it. The space between words is a key too. Backspace is not needed and does nothing, since everything typed is already correct. Pasting is blocked.
Restart — Tab then Enter, or the Restart button, starts the same text again; New text draws a fresh one.
Pausing — the test pauses when you click outside the test or switch tabs or windows, and the paused time is left out of your result. Changing an option or pressing a button within the test does not pause it, and your next letter goes back into the text. A paused test carries on with your next key: click the text first, or just type a letter.
Caps Lock — a warning shows above the text while it is on, since every letter would come out as a capital and count as a mistake.
Show timer and speed — hide the countdown and the live speed if they distract you.
Sound — a click for each right key and a low buzz for a wrong one. On by default; switch it off for silence.

How each figure is calculated

A word is 5 characters, as typing tests and typing exams count it, so the speed does not depend on how long the words in your text happened to be. The space after a correct word counts as one of its characters. A word still being typed when the time runs out adds nothing to WPM unless it is already complete, but its key presses count towards raw speed and accuracy.

Letters must match exactly, capitals included. A curly apostrophe or quote counts as the straight one, and an accented letter typed with a dead key counts once, as the letter. On a phone, a word typed by swiping counts as its letters, each one a key press, up to its first wrong letter; the rest of that word is dropped.

Consistency uses the raw speed of each whole second; a last part-second shorter than half a second is left out. It is not shown for a test under 3 seconds, and no speed is shown under 1 second.

WPM = characters in finished words, with the space after each ÷ 5 ÷ minutes

Raw WPM = every character key pressed ÷ 5 ÷ minutes

Accuracy = correct key presses ÷ all key presses × 100

Consistency = 100 − (standard deviation ÷ mean of the raw speed each second × 100), at least 0

Examples

A one-minute test

You type 52 words correctly, with 258 letters between them. With a space after each, that is 310 characters, or 62.0 words of five characters, in one minute: 62.0 WPM, shown as 62.

Raw speed and accuracy

In the same minute you pressed 340 keys, 18 of them wrong. Raw speed is 340 ÷ 5 = 68 WPM, and accuracy is 322 ÷ 340 = 94.7%. The wrong keys cost time but never reach the text, so WPM stays the speed of the words you finished.

A wrong key

Text: the cat sat
Keys pressed: the csat sat

The “s” after “c” is wrong: the “a” turns red and waits, and the next key is the right one. Typed at one key every 300 ms, the test ends on the last letter after 3.3 seconds. The text holds all three words, so WPM is 40.0. All 12 key presses count for raw speed, 43.6 WPM, and 1 of them was wrong, for 91.7% accuracy.

Consistency

Over five seconds your raw speed is 60, 72, 48, 66, 54 WPM. They average 60 and vary from it by 14.1% of that average (the coefficient of variation), so consistency is 85.9%.

Frequently asked questions

They count different things, and few say what. Some count every key, as raw WPM does here; some subtract a word per minute for each uncorrected error; some count only correct words, as WPM does here. On the same typing, a site that counts every key shows the higher number. Compare speeds only between tests that measure the same way.

Nothing goes into the text: the letter you should have typed turns red until you press it. The wrong key lowers accuracy and raw speed, and the moment it took lowers WPM, but no word is ever left wrong. Typing lessons use the same rule, so it trains accuracy first.

Yes. Tap the text to open the keyboard. Autocorrect and suggestions are turned off for the test where the keyboard allows it; swiped words count as their letters. Phone typing is usually slower than a physical keyboard, so compare phone results with each other.

In this browser on this device, one best per mode, so a 1-minute test with punctuation is compared only with others like it. A test with no word finished is not saved. Clearing site data removes it, and it is never sent anywhere.