David Copperfield
Charles Dickens, 1850. Type the opening exactly as written — capitals and punctuation count.
- Gross WPM
- 0
- Accuracy
- 0%
- Wrong words left in
- 0
- Keystrokes / hour
- 0
- Time
- 0 s
This text as typing material
- Length
- 27 words
- Characters
- 132
- At 40 WPM
- 40 s
- Shift presses
- 2
- Punctuation marks
- 3
132 characters count as 26 exam words, so 40 WPM finishes it in about 40 seconds and 60 WPM in 26. It asks for 2 capitals and 3 punctuation marks (commas, periods), which is where a test of common words never takes you. The longest word is “Whether”.
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