How this typing test works
The test deals you a stream of roughly 200 common English words — short, familiar ones like “the”, “which” and “people” — so you are measuring typing speed, not vocabulary. The timer starts the moment you press your first key. Pressing space submits the current word: correct words turn green, wrong ones red, and the next word highlights automatically. Backspace works within the word you are typing, but once a word is submitted it is locked — the same rules used by every serious typing test, so your score here is comparable to scores elsewhere.
When time runs out you get four honest numbers. WPM uses the standard definition — correct characters divided by 5, per minute — while raw WPM counts everything you typed, mistakes included. Accuracy is simply correct words over attempted words. If raw WPM is well above WPM, you are typing faster than you can type correctly, which is the clearest signal to slow down.
How to take the test
- Pick a duration — 60 seconds is the standard for comparable scores.
- Click the input and start typing; the timer starts itself.
- Press space after each word, and keep going until time is up.
- Hit Restart for a freshly shuffled word stream.
Reading your score honestly
Around 40 WPM is average, 65–80 WPM is professional territory, and 100+ is elite. But a 70 WPM run at 85% accuracy is worse in practice than 55 WPM at 99% — every error you fix in real work costs far more than the split second it saved. Run the test a few times at different durations: short 15-second sprints flatter your top speed, while the 120-second setting shows what you actually sustain. And if you are drafting real text rather than racing, the Word Counter gives you live word and character counts as you write.