Typing Speed Test - WPM and Accuracy in 30, 60 or 120 Seconds

The clock starts on your first key press, not on a button, and it runs on timestamps from the browser's clock rather than counting ticks, so a slow screen cannot change your result. A key pressed after time is up is ignored. If you finish the whole text before time is up, the test ends and your speed is worked out over the time you used.

A word is five characters, spaces and punctuation included. That is the usual convention for typing speed (Wikipedia, Words per minute). Raw WPM = (all characters typed / 5) / minutes. Net WPM = (correct characters / 5) / minutes. Accuracy = correct characters / characters typed. A character is correct when it matches the character in the same place in the text. Backspace is allowed, and the score uses what is in the box when time ends, so a mistake you fixed does not count against you and one you left does. Other sites may work out net speed differently, so only compare results made the same way.

Common words picks random words from a list of 200 common English words chosen for this page, in lower case with no punctuation. Passages are short pieces of ordinary prose: six written for this page and the opening of Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (1813), which is in the public domain, in the wording of Project Gutenberg ebook 1342. Enough text is prepared for a typist at 180 words per minute, so you cannot run out in the time. English only; typing in Sinhala is not tested here.

After each test the page compares your net speed with one published figure. In the CHI 2018 study Observations on Typing from 136 Million Keystrokes, 168,000 volunteers transcribed sentences in an online test. Their average was 51.56 WPM, and the fastest typists reached 120 WPM or more. Treat the comparison as rough: that study used other texts and timed from the first to the last key press of each sentence, and volunteers chose to take part.

The text box is a normal text input, so on-screen keyboards, autocorrect and input methods work, and the page never rewrites what you type. Turn off predictive text on a phone for a fair test. Pasting is switched off. To start again press Tab then Enter, or use Restart. Only your best score for each time and text choice is saved in this browser: net speed, raw speed, accuracy and the date. A run counts as a best if it lasted the full time, or the text ran out after at least 10 seconds, with at least 20 characters typed. A speed above 400 WPM is not recorded, because that is not typing.