Practice texts
Common-word tests never make you reach for Shift or a semicolon. Real sentences do. These are the opening lines of books in the public domain, quoted exactly.
Jane Austen · 1813
Pride and Prejudice
23 words · 35 s at 40 WPM · 3 punctuation marks
Charles Dickens · 1859
A Tale of Two Cities
60 words · 86 s at 40 WPM · 10 punctuation marks
Herman Melville · 1851
Moby-Dick
45 words · 68 s at 40 WPM · 6 punctuation marks
Lewis Carroll · 1865
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
57 words · 91 s at 40 WPM · 10 punctuation marks
Charles Dickens · 1843
A Christmas Carol
34 words · 59 s at 40 WPM · 8 punctuation marks
Charlotte Bronte · 1847
Jane Eyre
53 words · 89 s at 40 WPM · 8 punctuation marks
Charles Dickens · 1850
David Copperfield
27 words · 40 s at 40 WPM · 3 punctuation marks
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1883
Treasure Island
73 words · 118 s at 40 WPM · 10 punctuation marks
Abraham Lincoln · 1863
The Gettysburg Address
30 words · 53 s at 40 WPM · 4 punctuation marks
Henry David Thoreau · 1854
Walden
51 words · 78 s at 40 WPM · 10 punctuation marks
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