Beginners
Learn where the keys are, one row at a time, without looking down.
Find your typing speed, then make it faster
Take a timed test from 15 seconds to 2 minutes with sentences, code, random words or your own text, or work through a seven-lesson touch typing course. You get your net WPM, accuracy, a speed graph and the keys you missed. Free, with no account.
Made for a computer keyboard. Your results and progress stay in your browser.
Features
What is inside
- Timed tests
- Choose 15, 30, 60 or 120 seconds, or turn the timer off and finish the passage. The clock starts on your first key.
- Five kinds of text
- Easy sentences, paragraphs, real code, random words with optional punctuation and numbers, or your own pasted text.
- A seven-lesson course
- Home row, then the top and bottom rows, numbers, capitals and coding symbols, with instructor notes and a target for each lesson.
- Results with a graph
- Net and gross WPM, accuracy, consistency and a speed graph, and a note when you beat your best.
- Weak-key drills
- It lists the keys you missed most and builds a practice text around them.
- Your progress
- Your last results, best speed and averages, kept in your browser. No account.
- Stop on mistakes
- An optional mode that will not move on until the right key is pressed.
- On-screen keyboard and focus mode
- A guide keyboard shows the next key and the finger to use. You can switch it off, change the text size, or go fullscreen.
How it works
How a test goes
Choose what to type
Pick a kind of text and a time, or open the course and choose a lesson.
Type
The clock starts on your first key. Backspace works if you slip, and Esc starts over.
Read your results
Check your net speed, accuracy and the graph, and see which keys cost you the most.
Practise the weak spots
Drill your missed keys, or try again to beat your best.
Uses
Who it is for
Job seekers
Warm up before a typing test an employer sets. The result here is for practice.
Programmers
Practise brackets, arrows and real code so symbols stop slowing you down.
Students and writers
Paste in your own notes or a speech and build accuracy on the words you actually use.
How the typing course works
The course has seven short lessons. In each, you type one practice line, and you pass when you reach both the speed and the accuracy target. Passing unlocks the next lesson. Your progress is saved in your browser.
| Lesson | Focus | Target |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Home Row Basic (Focus on asdf jkl;) | 15 WPM at 90% accuracy |
| 2 | Home Row Extended (Adding g and h) | 20 WPM at 90% accuracy |
| 3 | The Top Row (qwertyuiop) | 25 WPM at 90% accuracy |
| 4 | The Bottom Row (zxcvbnm) | 30 WPM at 90% accuracy |
| 5 | Numbers & Symbols (1234567890 - =) | 25 WPM at 90% accuracy |
| 6 | Capitalization (Left and Right Shift) | 35 WPM at 92% accuracy |
| 7 | Coding Symbols ({} [] () =>) | 30 WPM at 95% accuracy |
Lesson 7 covers the brackets and symbols programmers use most. When you are ready for more, switch to the Pro level in free practice.
Tips for typing faster
- Accuracy first. Fixing mistakes costs more time than typing a little slower, and mistakes lower your net speed.
- Keep your fingers on the home row (A S D F and J K L ;) and reach for other keys from there, then return.
- Try not to look at the keys. The on-screen keyboard shows the next key and which finger to use, so you can look at the text instead.
- Short, regular sessions beat one long one. Ten minutes a day works better than an hour on Sunday.
- Sit with your wrists straight and your forearms level with the keyboard, and take breaks.
What is a good typing speed?
It depends on the job. An average speed of around 40 words per minute is often quoted for adults, and people who type for a living are commonly quicker, but there is no single target. Set your own: beat your last score, and keep your accuracy high while you do.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Yes. The tests, the touch typing course and your progress page are free, with no account.
Every five characters count as one word. Gross WPM is the characters you typed divided by five, divided by the minutes you took. Net WPM is that minus your mistakes divided by the minutes taken (counted as at least one minute, so a short test is not punished hard for one slip). Net WPM is the number the app puts first.
A character that is still wrong when the score is taken. If you notice a slip and fix it with Backspace, it no longer counts against your accuracy or net speed. The results also show keystroke accuracy, which counts every wrong key you pressed, even the ones you corrected.
Easy sentences, paragraphs, code (JavaScript, React, Python, SQL, a Docker command and a regular expression), random common words with optional punctuation and numbers, or your own text pasted in. After a test, you can also drill the keys you missed most.
Yes. Choose "My own text", paste up to 3,000 characters, and type it. Curly quotes, long dashes and non-breaking spaces are swapped for plain characters you can find on a keyboard.
Net and gross WPM, accuracy, keystroke accuracy, consistency (how steady your speed was), the mistakes left, the time taken, a speed graph for the test, and the keys you missed most. If you beat your best for that kind of test, it says so.
If you type the whole passage first, the test ends and scores the time you actually took. Timed tests use a passage long enough for the time you chose, and you can also turn the timer off and just finish the passage.
Yes. Seven lessons take you from the home row, through the top and bottom rows and numbers, to capital letters and coding symbols. Each lesson has notes from an instructor and a speed and accuracy target, and you unlock the next lesson by reaching it.
It refuses a wrong key, so the cursor does not move until you press the right one. It is a good way to build accuracy. Your net speed still counts every wrong key as time spent.
In your own browser, on your own device. There is no account, and nothing is sent to us. Your last 100 results and your course progress stay until you clear your browser's site data. Using another browser or device starts fresh.
It is good practice, but the result is not a certificate and cannot be shared. If an employer names a particular test, take that one for the official score.
It is made for a computer with a physical keyboard. A phone's on-screen keyboard will run the test, but the speeds will not be comparable, and the on-screen guide keyboard is hidden on small screens.