Today's typing challenge, and racing your best.

Today's challenge.

Every day there is one minute of common English words, the same for everyone. The words come from the date alone, worked out on your device, so no server picks them and anyone anywhere gets the same ones. Tomorrow brings new words; yesterday's never change.

• Take the typing test

Race a ghost.

Turn on Race under More options and a second, fainter caret moves through the words as you type. It can go at a steady speed you set, at the speed of your best test of that kind, or, when the words are the same, as a ghost that plays back your best run key by key, mistakes and all.

• Take a 1 minute typing test
• Guide: how words per minute is counted

Challenge a friend.

After a test, Challenge a friend makes a link that carries the words, the settings and your run after the # in the address. That part of an address is never sent to a website, so it reaches your friend's browser and nowhere else. Opening it asks first, then lets them race your ghost over the same words.

Anyone could write such a link by hand, so a ghost's speed proves nothing: it is for fun between friends.

• Take the typing test

Bests and streaks, kept on your device.

Nothing is kept unless you turn on Keep my results on this device. Then each result, your best of each kind of test, the days you typed and your lessons' letters stay in this browser, never sent anywhere. Turning it off takes them all away, and the Kept on this device button in the header lists them with everything else KeepSimp keeps.

A result card makes a picture of a result to share. It is a practice result, not a certificate, and it says so.

• Guide: what is a good typing speed?
• Guide: typing tests for job applications