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WPM test
Find your words per minute, raw speed and accuracy, each counted by a formula the page shows, in your browser. Free, with no account or uploads.
Find your words per minute
A word is five characters. Words typed right count; the result shows how each number was worked out.
How long
15 s30 s1 min2 min5 min
Loading the words
The clock starts with your first key. Tab then Enter, or Esc, starts again.
What do you want to type?
Common wordsBest for mostEveryday wordsThe thousand words used most, in no orderPassages from booksWith punctuationReal sentences with capitals and punctuationNumbersDigitsGroups of digits, as in data entry
The test
Which words
2001,0005,00010,000
The most common words in English, from Monkeytype's lists
Mistakes
A wrong letter
Is markedStops youKeeps the space
It is typed and marked, and you go on
Backspace goes back into
Wrong wordsAny wordNothing
An earlier word only when it was typed wrong
Reading
Font
Every letter as wideOrdinary
Caret
LineBlockUnderline
While typing
Everything happens in your browser. Nothing you type is sent anywhere or kept.
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
- How is words per minute worked out?
- Every five characters count as one word, spaces included. Words a minute counts the characters of the words you typed right, with their spaces, over five, over the minutes. The result shows each formula.
- What is the difference between WPM and raw?
- Words a minute counts only words typed right. Raw counts every character you left typed, right or wrong, so it shows how fast your fingers moved. The gap between them is what your mistakes cost.
- Why is my speed different on other sites?
- Sites count differently: some subtract a penalty for each mistake, some multiply by accuracy, and easy word lists give higher numbers than passages. Compare results on one site, with the same settings.
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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