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Typing Speed Test
Sixty seconds, forty sentences, and a number to try to beat next time.
Sixty seconds, forty sentences. Your best score is kept in this browser only.
Typing speed is quoted in words per minute, and a word here means five characters — the convention that lets a run of long words and a run of short ones be compared fairly. Only characters in the right position count, and the clock starts on your first keystroke rather than when the page loads, so reading the first sentence is not held against you.
The test runs for sixty seconds over forty ordinary English sentences and moves on when you finish a line. Accuracy is counted from keystrokes, not from the text you end up with: a character typed in the wrong place counts even if you backspace over it. That is deliberate. A slow, heavily corrected run should not score the same as a clean one, and counting the finished text would let it.
How to use it
- Press Restart for a fresh shuffle of the forty sentences, then click the text field.
- Type the sentence exactly as it is shown. The character under the cursor is highlighted, characters you got right go solid, and wrong ones are underlined in red.
- Finish a sentence and the next one appears — the clock runs straight through them all.
- At sixty seconds the field locks and the final figures are shown. Your best score stays in this browser for next time.
Questions
How is words per minute calculated?
Correct characters divided by five, divided by the minutes elapsed. Three hundred correct characters in a minute is 60 words per minute. Only characters in the right position count toward it, and the figure is rounded to a whole number on screen.
Why is my accuracy lower than the mistakes I can see?
Because it counts every keystroke, not the text you finish with. Type a letter in the wrong place, delete it and type the right one, and that is two keystrokes of which one was wrong — fifty per cent for those two. The final text can be perfect while the accuracy figure is not, which is the honest way to measure it.
Where is my best score stored?
In this browser's local storage, on this device, as a single small entry. It is never sent anywhere, and clearing site data removes it. A different browser, a private window or another machine starts from nothing.
Does it work on a phone?
It runs, but an on-screen keyboard is a different instrument from a physical one, so the number is not comparable with a desktop run. If you want a score worth tracking, use a keyboard.