Measure your words per minute and your accuracy, and see which keys cost you the most
Typing Test is the full WPM and accuracy assessment — a timed passage with a detailed breakdown at the end, including which keys cost you the most. It is the formal version of the speed game, meant to be taken occasionally rather than played.
Press Start and type the passage shown.
The timer runs until the passage or the time limit ends.
Every keystroke is checked against the target.
A summary reports WPM, accuracy and problem keys.
Retake it periodically to track progress.
Choose a text (easy, medium, hard with numbers and symbols, or a paragraph) and type as much of it as you can. The 60-second clock starts when you press Start.
Speed is correct characters divided by five, per minute of elapsed time. Accuracy is correct characters as a share of everything typed, so mistakes lower accuracy and, because they are not correct characters, also lower speed. Your best WPM is saved in this browser.
Typing speed, accuracy and error diagnosis. The per-key breakdown is the useful part — it turns 'I should type faster' into a specific thing to practise. Read what the result means in our free typing test online guide, then improve it with the typing drills.
Typing speed is usually measured in words per minute, where a 'word' is standardised as five characters so that texts can be compared. A 2018 study of 136 million keystrokes from 168,000 volunteers found an average of about 52 words per minute, with the fastest typists above 120.
Skilled typing depends on looking ahead: Timothy Salthouse's research showed that experts read several characters beyond the one they are typing, which lets them overlap movements. That is why accuracy and a steady rhythm raise speed more than trying to hurry.
Sit properly. Wrists up, elbows at roughly a right angle, screen at eye level. Posture affects speed more than people expect.
Use all ten fingers and keep them on the home row between keystrokes.
Test once a week, not daily. Daily testing measures your mood more than your progress.
Practise your worst three keys specifically between tests.
Roughly 40 WPM is the figure usually quoted for an average adult, with professional typists well above that. Methodology varies enough between tests that cross-site comparison is unreliable.
For real work, yes. Every error costs a backspace, a retype and a break in flow — typically several times the original keystroke.
Yes. Typing is motor learning and it responds to practice throughout life.
Weekly. Day-to-day variation is large enough that daily testing is mostly noise.