Typing Speed Test

What is this tool?

The test gives you a passage and a clock. As you type, it tracks which characters were correct and reports two headline numbers: WPM (words per minute) and accuracy as a percentage.

WPM here follows the standard convention that one word equals five characters. Only correct characters count towards speed, so you cannot raise your WPM by typing faster and worse.

Passages come in three difficulties — Easy, Medium and Hard — and the timer offers 15, 30, 60 or 120 seconds, with 60 as the default.

How to use it

1. Pick a difficulty and durationEasy passages use common short words. Medium and Hard introduce longer vocabulary and more punctuation, which is where most people's accuracy starts to slip.
2. Start typingThe clock begins on your first keystroke, not before, so reading the passage costs you nothing.
3. Watch the live figuresWPM and accuracy update several times a second while you type. Correct characters are marked as you go, so a mistake is visible immediately rather than at the end.
4. Review the dashboardWhen the timer runs out the Performance Dashboard shows your final numbers, and your personal best is kept in your browser for next time.

What the results mean

WPM

Correct characters ÷ 5 ÷ elapsed minutes. Typing 300 correct characters in a minute gives 60 WPM. The reading is capped at 400 WPM as a sanity guard — no human exceeds that, so a higher figure would be a glitch rather than a record.

Accuracy

Correct keystrokes ÷ total keystrokes × 100. Every wrong character counts against you even if you correct it, because the goal is to measure how cleanly you type, not how well you edit.

Where you stand

The page publishes its own Typing Speed Standards table. As a rough guide, around 40 WPM is average for adults, 60–80 is fast, and sustained triple figures is rare. Accuracy below about 95% usually costs you more time in corrections than raw speed gains.

WPM against CPM

Characters per minute is used for languages such as Chinese where a five-character word is meaningless. The page explains both so you can compare a CPM figure with a WPM one honestly rather than by guesswork.

What it can detect

• Sustained typing speed in words per minute, over 15, 30, 60 or 120 seconds
• Accuracy as a share of keystrokes that were correct
• How your speed changes as passage difficulty rises
• Your personal best, kept locally between visits

Limits worth knowing

A browser can only report what the platform gives it. These are the honest boundaries of this page, so a result is never read as more than it is.

• This measures your typing, not your keyboard. A missed character here is far more likely to be a finger than a switch — use the Broken Key Detector if you suspect hardware.
• Results vary with the passage. A run on Hard is not comparable with a run on Easy, and neither is comparable with a different site's word list.
• The five-character word convention is a standard, not a law. Other tests may count differently, so numbers from elsewhere will not line up exactly.

Tips

• Chase accuracy first. Once you are reliably above 97%, speed tends to follow on its own.
• Use the 60 or 120 second option for a real measurement. A 15 second run mostly measures your best burst.
• Look at your hands, not the screen — if you have to, look at the screen and not your hands. Touch typing is what breaks a plateau in the 40–50 WPM range.

Troubleshooting

Related documentation

• KeyboardOnline Keyboard TestThe keyboard tester on the home page — press keys, watch them light up.
• KeyboardKeyboard Clicker TestMeasures how many times per second you can press a chosen key, across four techniques.
• KeyboardBroken Key DetectorA guided pass over every physical key, plus a consistency re-test for the ones that look wrong.
• KeyboardKeyboard Double-Click TestApplies a millisecond threshold to press-to-press timing and calls out chatter.
• KeyboardKey Press TestTimes each press: how long you held it, and how long since the last one.