Start typing and the timer starts with you. When the passage ends you get two numbers: words per minute, and the share of characters you got right. Retake it as often as you like — there is no signup and no limit.
It is a free typing test you can take online as often as you like — a typing test online with no signup, a free WPM test, a typing accuracy test and a typing speed checker in one passage. It doubles as a keyboard speed test if you have just changed keyboards and want the typing test WPM figure before and after. Because there is no limit on attempts it also works as a typing practice test and as online typing practice: take the typing speed test online, note the keys that cost you the accuracy, and take it again.
A "word" here is five characters, including spaces. That convention is what makes scores comparable at all: without it, a test full of short words would flatter you and one full of long words would not. Every typing test worth trusting uses the same definition, so a score from this page means the same thing as a score from anywhere else.
Accuracy is the number to watch, not speed. Correcting a mistake costs the time to notice it, the backspace, and the retype — so typing at 60 WPM cleanly beats typing at 80 with errors. If you are practising, slow down until you are above 97% and let the speed come back on its own.
Most typing tests give you plain English, which is not what a programmer types. The passages here include real JavaScript, SQL queries and HTML and CSS markup, so you practise the characters that actually slow you down: braces, semicolons, angle brackets, quotation marks and underscores. There are fourteen categories in all — alongside the code you will find mathematical formulas, Islamic wisdom, nature, space, wellness and mindfulness passages — so the text stays interesting across repeated attempts.
Choose 15, 30, 60 or 120 seconds. A fifteen-second run tells you how fast your hands are at their best; two minutes tells you what you can hold, which is the honest number if you type for a living. The one-minute test is the usual standard and the one to quote.
Most tests stop at speed and accuracy. This one reports words per minute, raw WPM before mistakes are deducted, accuracy as a percentage, the exact number of errors, and consistency — how even your pace was from start to finish. A line chart plots your speed second by second, which is where you see the dip: almost everyone starts fast and slows in the last third.
A single error count tells you nothing about how to improve. Here each one is classified and listed back to you: the wrong character, a character you missed entirely, the right letter in the wrong case, or an extra keystroke you did not need. Those are four different habits with four different fixes, and seeing which one dominates is the fastest way to raise accuracy.
No signup, no limit on attempts, and the test runs entirely in your browser — what you type is never sent anywhere. Retake it as often as you like.
Around 40 WPM is average. 60 to 70 is comfortable for office work, and above 90 is fast. Accuracy above 97% matters more than any of those numbers.
A word counts as five characters including spaces. Raw WPM is everything you typed; WPM is what is left after mistakes are taken out.
Yes. Choose a JavaScript, SQL or HTML and CSS passage and you will be typing real syntax rather than prose.
How even your speed was across the run. A high score means you held one pace; a low one means you sprinted and stalled, which usually costs accuracy.
It is free with no account and no limit on attempts.