1 players · 1 minOne passage.
One number.

Your speed in words per minute, with the accuracy that produced it. The clock starts when you do, not when the page loads.

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Why it works

Scored the way every other test scores it.

Words per minute is correct characters divided by five, over the minutes taken -- five characters being the conventional word. That means the number here is comparable with any other typing test rather than a measure of our own invention.

Only correct characters count. Typing quickly and wrongly produces a low number, which is the right incentive and the opposite of what a raw keystroke count would reward.

Worth knowing

Real sentences, not a pangram.

The quick brown fox is not English. It is a letter-coverage exercise, and it flatters anybody who has typed it before, which after thirty years is most people.

The passages here are ordinary sentences with common words, no numerals and nothing needing a modifier key, so a phone keyboard is not a separate handicap.

✦ How to play

Three steps, and none of them is signing up.

1
Read it first if you like

Nothing is timed until your first keystroke.

2
Type the passage

Characters go green when right and red when wrong, where the mistake happened.

3
Get your speed

Words per minute, accuracy, and the time it took.

Questions

Typing race, answered.

Around 40 words per minute is a competent office pace, 60 to 70 is fast, and above 90 is unusual. Accuracy matters more than it looks: at 95 per cent you are correcting roughly one word in twenty, and that costs more time than the extra speed gains.
On your first keystroke. Starting it on page load would penalise reading the passage first, which is the sensible thing to do and not something a test should charge for.
Only correct characters count toward the speed, and accuracy is reported separately. You can backspace and fix them; a wrong character left in place simply does not score.
Yes, though a phone keyboard will cost you a good chunk of your usual speed. Compare like with like.

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