Typing Speed Test

This typing speed test measures your words per minute the standard way: correct characters divided by five, per minute of typing. That "five characters equals one word" convention is what typing tutors and hiring tests have used for decades, and because only correctly typed characters count, the score is a net WPM — mistakes lower it rather than inflating it. The clock starts on your first keystroke, not when the page loads, so you are never penalised for reading the passage first.

As you type, every letter is marked live — green for correct, red for wrong — with the current word highlighted so your eyes never lose their place. Scoring is word-aligned: each word you type is compared against the matching word in the passage, so a single slip or a missed letter in one word doesn't cascade and wreck the rest of your run. Pasting is disabled, and your best WPM is saved locally in your browser so you can watch it climb across sessions.

Each test is a short passage of a sentence or two, drawn at random, which makes this a sprint rather than a marathon: a fifteen-second check you can run between tasks. Everything happens in your browser — nothing you type is sent anywhere — and it works on any device with a keyboard.