How to use Typing speed test
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Pick a test
Choose 15, 30, 60 or 120 seconds, a fixed 10 to 100 words, or a quote; switch on punctuation or numbers for harder text.
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Type the text
Click the words and start typing. The clock begins with your first key, wrong letters turn red and the caret shows your place.
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Correct or move on
Backspace fixes the current word; on an empty word it steps back to an earlier word that still has a mistake. Space moves on.
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Read the result
See net and gross WPM, accuracy, consistency, your speed each second and the keys you missed most, then try again.
Limits and Pro
Free with no sign-up: timed tests of 15, 30, 60 or 120 seconds, word tests of 10, 25, 50 or 100 words, 12 public-domain quotes, punctuation and number options, and the last 50 results kept in this browser.
About Typing speed test
Typing test measures how fast and how cleanly you type, with the numbers typing courses and job adverts usually ask for. Gross WPM counts every character you typed, spaces and mistakes included, divided by five (the standard length of a "word") per minute. Net WPM then subtracts one word for each error still left in the text, so a fast but sloppy run scores lower than a slightly slower clean one. Accuracy is the share of correct keystrokes, including mistakes you went back and fixed, and consistency shows how steady your pace was from one second to the next.
Timed tests feed you random words for 15 seconds to two minutes; word-count tests stop when you finish the last word; quote mode gives you one passage from a classic book or speech. The practice words come from a list of 200 everyday English words that we wrote for this tool and release to the public domain, and every quote is from a work old enough to be public domain, with its source shown below the text.
After each test the keyboard heatmap colours the keys you should have pressed by how often you missed them, which shows what to practise. Results are kept as a history in this browser. The heatmap uses a US QWERTY layout, the texts are English only, and the tool offers tests rather than lessons or certificates.
Privacy
The test runs entirely in this tab. Your keystrokes are compared with the text locally and are never sent to our server or anyone else, and nothing you type is stored except the summary of each result (date, test type, WPM, accuracy and consistency), which is kept in this browser's local storage until you clear the history.
Features
Timed, word and quote tests
15 to 120 seconds, 10 to 100 words or a classic passage, with optional punctuation and numbers.
Per-key error heatmap
See which keys you miss most often, based on the letter you should have typed.
Results history
Your last 50 results with net WPM, accuracy and consistency, saved in this browser.