Typing Test
Check your typing speed in 30 or 60 seconds, or play word rain. Free, no sign-up, and your results stay in this browser.
A physical keyboard works best. Phone keyboards work too; autocorrect is switched off in the typing box.
How WPM is worked out
Typing speed is counted in standard words of five characters. Every correctly typed word adds its letters plus one for the space, the total is divided by five, and then by the minutes taken. A 60-second test with 200 correct characters is 40 WPM. Wrong words add nothing to WPM; raw WPM counts everything you typed.
Accuracy is the share of keystrokes that were right at the moment you pressed them, so a corrected mistake still counts once.
Tips
- Keep your eyes on the words, not your hands, and let the space bar set a steady rhythm.
- Accuracy first: a mistake costs more time than typing a little slower.
- Rest your fingers on the home row (A S D F and J K L ;) and return there after each word.
- Run the 30-second test a few times to warm up before a 1-minute test.
The words
Tests use our own list of 402 common English words in lower case, shuffled differently every time. There is no punctuation and no capitals, so the score measures plain typing speed.