Walden

This text as typing material

Length

51 words

Characters

261

At 40 WPM

78 s

Shift presses

8

Punctuation marks

10

261 characters count as 52 exam words, so 40 WPM finishes it in about 78 seconds and 60 WPM in 52. It asks for 8 capitals and 10 punctuation marks (commas, periods), which is where a test of common words never takes you. The longest word is “Massachusetts”, and the less common letters K, V all appear.

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