Typing test for kids
A friendly typing test with short words, big letters and praise for effort, with no adverts and nothing typed sent anywhere. Free, with no account or uploads.
A typing test for young typists
Short words in big letters. Being right matters more than being fast, and the result says so.
Loading the words
The test
Accents typed with a dead key or held down are read as one letter
The most common words in English, from Monkeytype's lists
Mistakes
It is typed and marked, and you go on
An earlier word only when it was typed wrong
Reading
While typing
A little help along the way
Follow these steps. Every option is explained underneath. Everything happens in your browser; nothing you type is sent anywhere.
- Choose how longPick 15 seconds, 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minutes or 5 minutes above the words. A minute is chosen already. Under More options, a test can end after a number of words instead.
- Choose what to typeCommon words are the thousand used most. Passages from books are real sentences with capitals and punctuation. Numbers are groups of digits, as in data entry.
- Start typingThe clock starts with your first key. Type each word and press Space to go on to the next; a wrong word can be gone back into with Backspace. On a phone, tap the words to bring up the keyboard.
- Read your resultYour words a minute and the share of keys you pressed right come first, then raw speed, consistency, a chart of every second with your mistakes, and the words you typed wrong.
- Go againTab then Enter, or Esc, starts a new test. Again gives you the same words, so you can see whether you did better; New text makes new ones. Watch it again plays your test back as it was typed.
Questions people ask
- What makes this test right for children?
- Short words of five letters or fewer, big letters, a block caret that is easy to see, and a result that praises care instead of comparing children with adults.
- Is it safe for children to use?
- Yes. There are no adverts, no accounts, no chat and no links out of the test, and nothing a child types is sent anywhere or kept.
- How can my child get faster?
- By being right first: slow down, look at the screen rather than the keys, and take a short test every day. The lessons teach the keys a few letters at a time.
This page is the Typing test, opened for this one job; every other tool it has is one press away. Each of its settings is explained on the Typing test's own page.
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