Typing Test

What a word per minute means here

Five characters make a word, including spaces. That is the convention almost every burst test uses, and it is the only way a 15-second run and a 100-word run can share a chart. The score is that count divided by the elapsed minutes, rounded to a whole number.

Accuracy is reported beside the speed and is not folded into it. A net figure that silently subtracts errors produces a number that looks cleaner and is harder to check, and this site’s rule is the opposite of that.

The clock is the same monotonic clock the reaction tests read. It starts on the first input event, not on the click that opened the run, so the time spent reading the first line is not counted against you.

The four ways a run can end

Time stops when the seconds you picked have elapsed. Words and quote stop when the last character is in. Zen has no clock and no length — you stop it, with the Finish button or Shift+Enter, because a phone has no modifier key worth depending on alone.

The words themselves come from the language the page is set to. Quote uses a short original passage in that language, not a translation of the English one. Time, words and zen draw from the everyday list for that locale, so a French run is French typing.

Punctuation and spaces count on a quote. Skipping a comma to go faster is an error, and an error is visible in the accuracy figure even though it does not change the speed.

Why this is a burst and not a lesson

One run, one score, a chart. There is no lesson plan, no adaptive difficulty and no account that remembers your weak keys, because those belong to a different product and would put a step in front of the first character.

Physical keyboards and on-screen keyboards are charted apart. They are different devices with different error patterns, and pooling them would produce a curve that describes nobody in particular.

A run that is abandoned before it can produce a speed — closing the tab, or finishing zen having typed nothing — is not recorded. That is the only way a distribution of finished bursts stays a distribution of finished bursts.

This is a measurement toy, not a medical or psychological test. No score here says anything about your health, attention or cognition, and it is not a screening tool of any kind.

Questions

What is a good typing speed?

The chart on this page, for the kind of keyboard you used, is the comparison that belongs here. Everyday physical-keyboard speeds and phone-keyboard speeds are different enough that a single number would mislead both.

Does accuracy change the words-per-minute figure?

No. Speed and accuracy are reported separately. Subtracting errors from the speed would hide the thing you would want to see.

Can I take the test on a phone?

Yes. The passage stays above the input so the on-screen keyboard cannot cover it, and taps are recorded as their own input mode.