Typing speed test
Typing speed test
Type a short passage in this browser and see your gross words a minute, your net speed after errors, and your accuracy — nothing is timed on a server.
How this is calculated
A word is five characters, so gross speed = characters typed / 5 / minutes elapsed. Net speed subtracts the characters that do not match the passage. Accuracy = matching characters / characters typed.
- The clock starts on the first character and runs in your browser. A slower connection or a busy machine cannot make the passage shorter, and no result is sent anywhere.
- Speed alone is not a qualification: a transcription job tests accuracy and format as well, and most tests use their own passage rather than this one. Use the figure as a practice reading, not as a certificate.
A typing speed is characters divided by five, divided by the minutes the clock ran. This page runs the clock in your browser against a fixed passage and shows both the raw speed and the speed after errors.
How the clock and the count work
Nothing starts until you type the first character, so reading the passage and finding the box does not cost you time. Each word is counted as five characters — the standard that makes speeds comparable between passages of different lengths. Gross speed is every character typed, divided by five and by the minutes elapsed; net speed counts only the characters that match the passage, so a fast run with mistakes scores lower than a slower clean one.
Accuracy is matching characters divided by characters typed. It is a strict comparison: a capital letter where the passage has a small one is a miss, and so is a missing comma. That strictness is the point — a typing test for a job usually marks the same way.
What a speed number does not say
It does not say how you type unfamiliar words, how you handle a form field or a spreadsheet, or how long you can keep the pace up. It is also measured against this passage; a professional test uses its own text, and a result here is practice rather than a certificate.
The clock, the passage and the comparison all run in the browser. No keystroke and no result is sent to the site, which matters if the passage you practise on is a confidential document you pasted in — though this page supplies its own text and asks you to type that.
Questions readers ask
Is a word really five characters?
That is the convention typing tests use, not a dictionary definition. It turns a character count and a time into a number that can be compared across passages and across tests.
Why is my net speed lower than my gross speed?
Because net speed counts only characters that match the passage. Every mismatch is subtracted, so the difference between the two lines is the cost of the errors you made.
Is my typing sent anywhere?
No. The clock and the comparison run in this browser tab, and the page stores nothing after you leave it.
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