Typing Speed Test
Take a free 1-minute typing test. Type common words for 15, 30 or 60 seconds and get your net WPM, accuracy, and the keys that slow you down.
Pick 15, 30 or 60 seconds, click the box below and type the words you see. The clock starts on your first keystroke. Correct letters turn green and mistakes turn red. Nothing you type leaves your browser.
How to use
- Pick a length. Choose 15, 30 or 60 seconds. The 60-second run is the standard one-minute test.
- Start typing. Click the box and type the words shown above it. The clock starts on your first keystroke and stops when time runs out.
- Read your result. You get net WPM, accuracy, your speed across the run, and the keys you were slowest on or missed most.
- Challenge a friend. Share the result. Your friend gets the same words and a red marker that moves at your pace.
Why test this
A WPM number only means something if you know how it was measured. This test times you over 15, 30 or 60 seconds of common English words, counts only the characters you got right, and shows the math under the result. For context, a 2018 study of about 168,000 online typists put the average at 52 WPM, and the middle 80 percent typed between about 26 and 78. The result also looks past the headline number. It lists the keys you hesitate on and the keys you miss, so you can tell a finger habit from a key that needs a closer look. Run it when you switch keyboards, after you remap keys, or before a job application that asks for a typing speed. Then send the link: a friend gets the same words and a marker that moves at your pace.
What the results mean
Speed is net WPM: correct characters divided by five, per minute of the run. Type 300 correct characters in 60 seconds and it reads 60 WPM. The chart under your result cuts the run into 15 equal stretches. A fast start that fades shows up at a glance, and so does a slow start that picks up. With two runs done, All runs replaces it with your recent runs at this length. Tap one and its own chart opens. A line below compares your latest runs with earlier ones, which tells you whether practice is paying off. Accuracy is the share of your typed characters that match the text, and every wrong one is a character the score does not count. Slowest keys are the ones you paused longest before. Most missed are the keys where you typed a different character than the text asked for. When one key misses three times or more at a high rate, the result links to the Keyboard Tester: if that key also fails there, the key itself is the problem, not your finger. Your best score for each length is saved in this browser, and a new best is flagged on the result screen.
FAQ
- How is WPM calculated?
- A word is any five characters, spaces included. The test counts the characters you typed correctly, divides by five, then divides by the minutes of the run. That is net WPM, so mistakes you leave in lower your score.
- What is a good typing speed?
- In a 2018 study of about 168,000 online typists, the average was 52 WPM. The slowest tenth typed under about 26 WPM and the fastest tenth above about 78. That study timed short sentences people read first, so treat it as a rough guide, not an exact bar.
- Which test length should I pick?
- The 60-second run is the standard one-minute test and gives the steadiest number. A 15-second run is a sprint: one fast or slow word moves the score a lot. Only the 60-second run counts toward our anonymous statistics.
- How are the words chosen?
- They are drawn at random from about 250 common English words, all lowercase with no punctuation. That keeps the test about typing, not spelling or the Shift key.
- Why did my speed drop when I made mistakes?
- Net WPM only credits characters that match the text, so a typo you leave in costs you. You can backspace and retype, and a fixed typo counts as correct, but every correction still eats time.
- What do slowest keys and most missed keys tell me?
- Slowest keys are the ones you pause longest before, using the middle value of at least three presses. Most missed keys are where you typed something other than what the text asked for. If one key keeps missing, the result links to the Keyboard Tester so you can see if the key registers at all.
- How does the challenge link work?
- Share your result and the link carries the same words and run length. Your friend types next to a red marker that moves at your average pace, then sees how many WPM faster or slower they were.
- Is my typing recorded?
- Your keystrokes are not. The text you type is scored in this tab and never reaches a server. When a 60-second run ends, the page sends us one number, your WPM, with no text, IP address or cookie. Shorter runs send nothing. Your browser holds on to your personal best and your last 30 runs at each length, and saves each run's speed chart with it.
How we measure
Each time the text box changes, the test compares what you typed with the text, one position at a time. A character counts as correct only when it matches the character in the same place. The clock starts on your first keystroke. A run lasts 15, 30 or 60 seconds, and anything you type after time runs out is dropped.
Speed is net WPM: correct characters divided by 5 characters per word, then by the minutes of the run. The score always divides by the full run length, so a pause near the end costs you. Accuracy is the share of the characters in the box that match the text. Errors are the wrong characters still in the box, so a typo you fix with Backspace drops out of both.
The verdict under the score changes at 30 WPM, 50 WPM and 70 WPM.
The speed chart splits the run into 15 equal stretches. Each bar is the correct characters you added in that stretch, turned into WPM. A stretch where you deleted more than you added reads 0.
A key's time is the gap since your previous keystroke, taken only when one keystroke adds one character. Slowest keys use the middle value of at least 3 correct presses of that key. The result links to the Keyboard Tester when one key has 3 misses or more and you missed it on at least 30% of tries.
What a browser cannot see
One skipped or extra character shifts the rest of the text. Every character after it reads wrong until you backspace to the slip.
A phone keyboard can enter a whole word in one step. That word still counts, but its keys get no time.
We take two times for each keystroke: the stamp your browser puts on the key press, and the moment the page handles the text that key adds. If they land within 25 ms of each other, we keep the page's time. Past that, the page was busy, and the stamp wins. Dictated text, or anything else that lands without a key press, is timed when the page gets it.
Paste and drop are blocked, so only typed text counts.
The verdict bands are our call, not a standard.
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