Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

This text as typing material

Length

57 words

Characters

302

At 40 WPM

91 s

Shift presses

2

Punctuation marks

10

302 characters count as 60 exam words, so 40 WPM finishes it in about 91 seconds and 60 WPM in 60. It asks for 2 capitals and 10 punctuation marks (commas, colons, apostrophes, question marks), which is where a test of common words never takes you. The longest word is “conversations”, and the less common letters K, V all appear.

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• Typing test

  Gross and net WPM, accuracy and keystrokes per hour — the figures typing exams use.

• Typing lessons

  Fifteen short lessons, two new keys at a time, with the keyboard showing which finger goes where.

• Weak keys

  A drill built from the keys you miss most, worked out from your own tests.

• Times tables

  Each table with its patterns, a drill that returns to what you got wrong, and a 60-second speed test.