Pride and Prejudice

This text as typing material

Length

23 words

Characters

117

At 40 WPM

35 s

Shift presses

1

Punctuation marks

3

117 characters count as 23 exam words, so 40 WPM finishes it in about 35 seconds and 60 WPM in 23. It asks for 1 capital and 3 punctuation marks (commas, periods), which is where a test of common words never takes you. The longest word is “acknowledged”, and the less common letters K, V all appear.

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