Moby-Dick

This text as typing material

Length

45 words

Characters

228

At 40 WPM

68 s

Shift presses

5

Punctuation marks

6

228 characters count as 46 exam words, so 40 WPM finishes it in about 68 seconds and 60 WPM in 46. It asks for 5 capitals and 6 punctuation marks (periods, hyphens, commas), which is where a test of common words never takes you. The longest word is “particular”, and the less common letters V all appear.

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