Frequently asked questions

One "word" is standardized as 5 characters, including spaces — this is the industry-standard convention used by most typing tests, not a literal word count. Your WPM is your number of correctly-typed characters divided by 5, divided by the minutes elapsed.

WPM (the big number) only counts characters you typed correctly. Raw WPM counts everything you typed, mistakes included. If your Raw WPM is much higher than your WPM, you're typing fast but making errors that are dragging your real score down.

No — once you've corrected a character, it's scored as correct. There's no penalty baked in for fixing a typo, only for leaving it wrong.

If you finish typing the entire passage before time runs out, the test ends immediately and scores what you typed — you don't have to wait out the clock once there's nothing left to type.

Your passage and keystrokes exist only for the duration of the test — refresh the page and they're gone. The one exception is your personal best WPM for each test length, which is saved locally in your browser so you can track progress over time. It never leaves your device. See the Privacy Policy for the full explanation.

Average typists land around 40 WPM. 60-70 WPM is solidly above average. Professional typists and competitive typing test regulars often break 100 WPM, though accuracy usually matters more than raw speed for real-world typing.

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