Typing Speed Test | Measure Your WPM

One minute, real words, and a score at the end. Words per minute here uses the definition everyone else uses, five correct characters counted as one word, which is what makes a result comparable with a test you took somewhere else. Accuracy is counted separately, because they are different problems: typing fast and fixing everything afterwards is not the same skill as typing accurately the first time. Raw speed, which counts everything you typed with the mistakes left in, is always the larger figure.

The words are common English rather than random letters, which raises the number by a noticeable amount. That is not cheating, it is what the standard measures: real typing is full of familiar shapes your fingers know, and a test of nonsense measures something you will never do.

Scores worth knowing: around 40 words a minute is an ordinary office pace, 60 to 70 is fast, and above 90 is unusual outside people who type for a living. Accuracy below about 95 per cent is usually the thing to work on first, because the time spent going back costs more than the speed gained. Before blaming yourself, the keyboard tester will show whether a key is actually registering.

How to use it

Start typing the text shown. The timer starts on your first keystroke.
Keep going for sixty seconds; correct characters turn green, mistakes red.
Read your WPM, raw WPM and accuracy, then press Restart to try again.

Questions

Why is my score lower here than elsewhere?

Different tests use different word lists. Common-word lists produce higher scores than tests with punctuation, capitals or code. Compare yourself against your own past runs, not across sites.

How is words per minute calculated?

Correct characters divided by five, divided by the minutes elapsed. The division by five is the standard word length used since typewriter tests, and it is why a test can report a number without arguing about what counts as a word.

Should I correct my mistakes as I go?

For the score, yes: only correct characters count, so an uncorrected mistake costs you the word. For practice, it is worth doing a few runs without correcting to see how much of your speed is real and how much is spent going back.

Why is my score different from another site's?

Usually the word list and whether errors are corrected. A test on the most common two hundred English words gives a higher number than one on a broad vocabulary, and a test that counts raw keystrokes gives a higher number still. The definition here is the conservative one.

Does the keyboard layout matter?

Yes, and so does the keyboard. A different layout takes weeks to get back to your old pace, and a laptop with a shallow key travel will usually score below a mechanical keyboard for the same person on the same day.

Is my typing recorded?

No. The words, the timing and the score all stay in this page, and nothing is sent anywhere. Reload the page and it is gone, which also means the score is yours to write down if you want to compare it later.

Your data stays on your device

Everything above runs inside your browser as WebAssembly compiled from Rust. Nothing you type is uploaded, logged or stored on a server. You can load this page once, go offline, and it still works.

This page makes no requests at all, to anywhere. That is not a promise in the copy: it is a Content-Security-Policy header your browser enforces, and connect-src on it is none. Open the network tab and watch nothing happen.