Typing Speed Test

📖 Introduction

A timed typing test that marks your work as you go: green for correct characters, red underlined for wrong ones, and a blue highlight on the character you are about to type. When the clock runs out you get speed, accuracy, a count of correct and wrong characters, and a rough level. Passages are picked at random inside the browser and nothing is fetched from the network.

Anyone curious how fast they actually type: take three runs and average them. Anyone preparing for a role with a typing requirement, who wants to know the starting point before practising. And anyone teaching a child the keyboard, where short passages are easier to sustain than long ones.

Anyone curious how fast they actually type: take three runs and average them. Anyone preparing for a role with a typing requirement, who wants to know the starting point before practising. And anyone teaching a child the keyboard, where short passages are easier to sustain than long ones.

• Is it normal to score much lower in Chinese? Yes. Chinese counts characters and depends on your input method, so it is not comparable with English.
• Why is my accuracy low? Scoring counts net correct characters, so backspacing to fix mistakes reduces accuracy.
• Can I choose the passage? Three per category, picked at random. Reset draws another.
• Are scores saved? No. Reloading the page clears everything.

Net speed counts only the characters you got right, so someone who types quickly and corrects constantly can score lower than someone slower but steadier. That is deliberate: in real work, fixing mistakes costs more time than typing carefully in the first place. Accuracy is reported separately so you can see which habit is holding you back. If accuracy is above about ninety-seven percent, push for speed; if it is lower, slow down and let it settle before chasing a higher number. Scores fluctuate from day to day, and a single run is noisy, so compare yourself against your own average across several attempts rather than one result.

✨ Features

• Three kinds of text: Chinese prose, English sentences and code snippets, three passages each, chosen at random.
• Three durations: 30, 60 and 120 seconds, with the countdown shown live next to the heading.
• Live marking: every character is compared against the target, green when right, red and underlined when wrong.
• Two measures: characters per minute for Chinese, standard WPM for English, counting five characters as a word.
• Accuracy: the share of correct characters among all typed ones, so raw speed alone does not win.
• Level: beginner, average, skilled or fast, based on net rate.

🚀 How to Use

1. Choose a text type and duration. Turn on uppercase display if you want to practise capitals.
2. Click Start. The passage appears and focus moves to the input box.
3. Type along. Do not backspace, since the score counts correct characters only.
4. The test stops when time runs out or the passage is finished. The score appears on the right.
5. Click Reset for another passage.

⚠️ Notes

• No time refundBackspacing does not give time back. The score counts net correct characters, so correcting yourself lowers accuracy.
• Not comparableChinese speed is counted per character and cannot be compared directly with English WPM.
• IME affects scoreAn input method's candidate confirmation time counts as typing time, so Chinese scores depend on your IME.
• Not for assessmentThis is a rough self-check, not a hiring or assessment instrument.
• No savingYes. Chinese counts characters and depends on your input method, so it is not comparable with English.