Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson, 1883. 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
- 73 words
- Characters
- 394
- At 40 WPM
- 118 s
- Shift presses
- 9
- Punctuation marks
- 10
394 characters count as 79 exam words, so 40 WPM finishes it in about 118 seconds and 60 WPM in 79. It asks for 9 capitals and 10 punctuation marks (commas, periods, hyphens), which is where a test of common words never takes you. The longest word is “particulars”, and the less common letters K, Q, V all appear.
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