Type the passage exactly as it appears. A wrong character is marked and the caret moves on — errors never block you, so you are never stuck hunting for the one key that will let you continue. Backspace fixes a mistake: a corrected error stops counting against your net WPM, though it still counts against accuracy. Pick a length before you start: 30 seconds, one minute, three minutes, or five. A one-minute test is the usual benchmark; the longer runs tell you what you can actually sustain, which is a different and more useful number. The scoring is plain. One word is five characters, spaces included. Gross WPM is characters typed divided by five, divided by minutes. Net WPM subtracts one word for every uncorrected error per minute, and accuracy is the share of keystrokes that were correct. Net is the big number, because net is the honest one.
The test tells you where you are. The Road is what moves you. It is a ladder of net-WPM rungs — 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 85, 100, and then 110, 120, 135 and 150 for anyone still climbing — and you pass a rung by holding its speed for 15 seconds at 95% accuracy or better. Each rung also carries a 30-second and a 60-second hold, which are there if you want to prove you can keep it up, and which gate nothing at all. The accuracy floor is the whole point: anyone can slam keys fast for a few seconds, and a score you can't repeat is not a score. A one-time placement run puts you at your real rung instead of making you climb from the bottom. Between attempts, drills built from your own slowest and most-missed letter pairs give you text that leans on exactly those pairs — your weak points, not a generic lesson.
Around 40 WPM is an ordinary adult typing speed. 60 and up is strong for everyday work, 80+ is genuinely fast, and roles that test typing usually ask for something between 50 and 75. If your first result is lower than you expected, that is normal and it is also the point of measuring. Two honest caveats. First, net and gross are not the same number, and a site quoting gross with the errors still in it will always flatter you; compare net with net. Second, a five-minute run typically lands around ten percent below a one-minute burst, because sustaining a speed is harder than reaching it — so compare like with like, and treat the longer runs as the truer picture of what you can do at work. Touch-keyboard scores run lower again, which is why they are tracked separately here rather than mixed into the same personal best.
The scoring is stated in full and matches what the code does. There is no signup, no account, and no cookies — your scores, personal bests and road progress live in your browser and go nowhere else. Nothing interrupts a run: no ads mid-test, no popups, no countdown to something you did not ask for. Every passage was written for this site, screened to be safe to project in a classroom, and the whole thing loads in well under a second on a school laptop.
One "word" is five characters, spaces included — the industry standard, so your score compares fairly with any other site's. Gross WPM is characters typed divided by five, divided by minutes. Net WPM — the big number on your results — subtracts one word for every uncorrected error per minute.
Gross counts everything you typed; net is gross minus a penalty for errors you didn't fix. Net is the honest number to compare across sites — quoting gross with errors in it is how people claim speeds they can't repeat.
A character that doesn't match the passage. It's marked, and the cursor moves on — errors never stop you. Fix it with backspace and it no longer counts against your net WPM, but it still counts against accuracy, because accuracy measures keystrokes, not final text.
A ladder of speed targets — 30, 40, 50 and up. You pass a rung by holding that net WPM for 15 seconds at 95% accuracy or better. Each rung also has a 30-second and a 60-second hold you can light if you want them, but they gate nothing — the first one passes the rung. The accuracy floor is the point: anyone can slam keys fast. Pass 100 and the road keeps going, to 120 and then 150.
The game notices which letter pairs you miss or slow down on, and builds practice text that uses them more often. It's your own weak points, not a generic lesson — and it's why your speed actually moves.
Around 40 WPM is average. 60 and up is strong for everyday work, and 80+ is fast. Jobs that test typing usually ask for 50–75 depending on the role. Speed grows with practice — the history chart is there to prove it to you.
Yes — the test works with touch keyboards, and we say plainly that touch WPM runs lower than a physical keyboard. Your personal bests are tracked separately for each, so neither spoils the other.
No. It's free, with no signup and no cookies. Scores, bests, and your road progress live in your browser.
Our word lists are our own compilation of common English words, and every sentence was written for this site — nothing is copied from books or other websites, and everything is safe to project in a classroom.