Jane Eyre

This text as typing material

Length

53 words

Characters

295

At 40 WPM

89 s

Shift presses

2

Punctuation marks

8

295 characters count as 59 exam words, so 40 WPM finishes it in about 89 seconds and 60 WPM in 59. It asks for 2 capitals and 8 punctuation marks (periods, commas, semicolons, hyphens), which is where a test of common words never takes you. The longest word is “possibility”, and the less common letters K, Q, X all appear.

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