1 minute typing test
60 seconds on the clock. It starts when you press the first key.
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Click here or press any key to start typing
Tab new wordsEsc same words againThe clock starts with your first key.
0net WPM
Personal best
- Gross WPM
- 0
- Accuracy
- 0%
- Wrong words left in
- 0
- Keystrokes / hour
- 0
- Time
- 0 s
What one minute of typing looks like
- At 30 WPM you type
- 30 words
- At 40 WPM (office average)
- 40 words
- At 60 WPM
- 60 words
- Keystrokes at 40 WPM
- 200
The standard length: long enough that a lucky start does not decide the result, short enough to repeat a few times in a row. One uncorrected wrong word takes 1 WPM off the net result of a 1 minute test.
Other lengths
How the score is worked out
A “word” is five keystrokes, spaces included — the convention typing exams use, so that long and short words count fairly.
- Gross WPM = everything you typed ÷ 5 ÷ minutes.
- Net WPM = gross minus one for every wrong word you left in, per minute. This is the number exams and employers ask for.
- Accuracy = correct keystrokes ÷ all keystrokes. A mistake you went back and fixed no longer costs speed, but it still costs accuracy.
- Keystrokes per hour (KPH) is the same speed in the unit data-entry jobs and some government exams quote.
Keep going
Typing lessons
Fifteen short lessons, two new keys at a time, with the keyboard showing which finger goes where.
Practice texts
Type the opening lines of classic books: real sentences, capitals and punctuation.
Weak keys
A drill built from the keys you miss most, worked out from your own tests.
Times tables
Each table with its patterns, a drill that returns to what you got wrong, and a 60-second speed test.