Typing Speed Test

About this game

Typing Speed Test measures how fast and how accurately you type, in words per minute, the way the popular typing sites do. Pick a fifteen, thirty or sixty second test, start typing the words on screen, and the clock starts with your first key. Correct letters light up, mistakes turn red, and a word you got wrong is underlined so you can go back and fix it before you move on. When the time runs out you get your speed, your accuracy, your raw speed including the mistakes, a breakdown of every character, and a chart of your speed second by second. The Common 200 list uses the two hundred most frequent words in English, the short familiar ones that make up most of what anybody writes, so it measures your fingers rather than your vocabulary. English 1k mixes in a thousand everyday words, longer ones included, for a harder and more realistic test. Your personal best is kept for every combination, and beating it gets a proper celebration. There is also a Daily test: sixty seconds on the same words for everybody that day. Take it as often as you like, keep your best score, come back tomorrow to keep your streak going, and share your result to see whether your friends can beat it. Speed here means correct words only. A word counts toward your words per minute only if every letter in it is right, which is the standard definition, so the number you get is comparable with the other well-known typing tests. It works with a real keyboard on a computer and with the on-screen keyboard on a phone or tablet, with nothing to install and no account.

Controls

Type the words on screen. The test starts with your first key.

• Space moves to the next word; Backspace on an empty word goes back to fix a wrong one.
• Tab or Esc restarts; Enter starts the next test from the results.
• On a phone, tap the words to bring up the keyboard.

How to play

Type the words shown as fast and as accurately as you can before the time runs out.

Taking the test

• Choose 15, 30 or 60 seconds and a word list: Common 200 or English 1k.
• The clock starts with your first letter. Press space after each word.
• Correct letters turn white, wrong ones red. A wrong word is underlined; press Backspace on the next word to go back and fix it.

Your score

• WPM counts only words typed fully correctly, five characters to a word, so mistakes cost you speed.
• Accuracy is the share of all your keystrokes that were right, including the ones you fixed.

The daily test

• One sixty-second test a day on the same words for everyone. Take it as often as you like; your best counts, and finishing one each day builds a streak.

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