How to play
- Read the sentencePress Start and a sentence appears. Reading it costs you nothing.
- 30 seconds from your first keyThe clock starts when you press a key and stops 30 seconds later.
- Copy it exactlyWrong characters are marked red and you keep going. The run never stops for a typo.
- Only correct characters countYour WPM comes from the characters and spaces you got right.
What this test measures
A sentence appears, you copy it, and the test counts how much of it you got right in 30 seconds. The score is in WPM, words per minute.
A "word" here is five keystrokes. Typists agreed on this unit decades ago so that people typing long words and short words could be compared fairly. Type 200 correct characters in half a minute and you are at 80 WPM.
The key rule is in the word "correct". Wrong letters add nothing, however fast you hit them. If a test rewarded raw keystrokes, mashing the keyboard would win, and the number would mean nothing.
What a good score looks like
Typing has well-known reference points, because offices have measured it for a century. The badge on your result follows this table. The test counts keystrokes behind the scenes, so the table shows both numbers.
| WPM · keystrokes per minute | Badge | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| 120+ WPM · 600+ | Superhuman | Competition speed. The keyboard is the slow one here. |
| 90-119 WPM · 450-599 | Pro tier | Professional typist speed. |
| 70-89 WPM · 350-449 | Skilled | Genuinely fast. Colleagues notice. |
| 40-69 WPM · 200-349 | Standard | Around the long-standing office average of 40. |
| 25-39 WPM · 125-199 | Warming up | A calm, deliberate pace. Every word arrives eventually. |
| Under 25 WPM · under 125 | Needs practice | Hunt-and-peck territory: each key is found by sight first. |
These anchors are for full keyboards. If you are on a phone, read the keyboard section below before you judge yourself.
Real scores recorded on this site
So far, 60 runs of this test have been recorded here. Computers and phones score quite differently, so each gets its own table.
Computer (mouse)
| Range | Share |
|---|---|
| 120+ WPM · 600+ · Superhuman | |
| 90-119 WPM · 450-599 · Pro tier | |
| 70-89 WPM · 350-449 · Skilled | |
| 40-69 WPM · 200-349 · Standard | |
| 25-39 WPM · 125-199 · Warming up | |
| Under 25 WPM · under 125 · Needs practice |
Every finished run counts, so someone who plays five times adds five runs. The numbers are recounted every day, and a device table shows up once it passes 30 runs. Last updated: 2 Nov 2026.
Why only 30 seconds
Longer tests also measure endurance, meaning how your speed holds up as your hands tire and your focus drifts. Thirty seconds measures your burst speed. That is the pace you type at when you are warmed up and paying attention.
There is a second reason. People take a five-minute test once. A 30-second test gets retried five times in a row by someone who will not accept their first number. In our view, that fifth try is usually the honest one.
Accuracy is speed, in disguise
Most people who want a higher WPM chase the wrong thing. They push their fingers faster, make more mistakes, stop to fix them, and end up slower.
If the accuracy on your result is below about 95 percent, slow down a little and stop making errors. That is the fastest route to a higher score, because every wrong character is a keystroke that earned nothing. Accuracy comes first, and speed follows.
Your keyboard is half the result
Phone keyboards are a different sport. You type with two thumbs on glass, autocorrect gets in the way, and there are no key edges to feel. So phone typing has its own technique and its own ceiling. A 40 WPM phone score and a 40 WPM desktop score are not the same achievement, which is why we record the device type with each result.
Desktop keyboards differ too. Shallow laptop keys, a mechanical board and a folding travel keyboard all feel different under your fingers. Switching to an unfamiliar keyboard often costs 10 to 20 WPM for a few days.
Language changes the test itself. A button under the test switches between English and Korean sentences. The Korean task uses its own sentences and counts keystrokes per minute, so the two are separate tests, not translations.
How to actually get faster
Touch type
Use all ten fingers and keep your eyes on the screen. You will be slower for two or three weeks. But looking at the keys is the habit that holds back every self-taught typist.
Hold 95 percent
Keep accuracy above 95 percent and let speed grow from rhythm. Fixing errors costs more time than rushing saves.
Short, daily sessions
A few runs every day stick better than one long session a week.
Real sentences
Your fingers learn common letter pairs as units, and real text is full of them. Random letters do not train anything useful.
Frequently asked questions
Is my WPM here comparable with other typing sites?
Broadly, yes. WPM is fixed at five correct keystrokes per word, so the math matches. But sentence difficulty varies between sites, since punctuation, capitals and rare words all slow you down. Expect your score to land within a few WPM of your score elsewhere, but not to match it exactly.
Why does the test ignore my wrong letters instead of ending the run?
If the test stopped on every error, it would measure how you react to mistakes instead of how you type. Real typing goes on past a typo, so we mark the wrong character in red and give it no credit. Your speed and accuracy appear separately in the result.
Does typing on a phone count?
Yes, and the measurement is just as honest. Just compare it with other phone scores. Thumb typing on glass has a lower ceiling than ten fingers on real keys. A gap between your phone and desktop scores says more about the keyboards than about you.
Why is the Korean version scored in strokes per minute?
A Korean syllable is built from several keystrokes: a consonant, a vowel and sometimes a final consonant. Counting finished syllables would undercount the work your fingers do. That is why Korean typing has always been measured in strokes per minute. It is the same idea as WPM, adapted to the writing system.
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- Sequence Memory TestSquares light up in order. Repeat the pattern as it grows.
- Visual Memory TestSquares flash all at once. Find every one, in any order.
- Chimp TestNumbers flash, then hide. Click them in order.
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- Focus TestFind 1 to 25 on a scrambled grid, in order, as fast as you can.
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