Updated 19 September 2026
Typing test: check your WPM in 60 seconds
A free typing test that tells you your words per minute and your accuracy in under a minute. No sign-up, no ads, nothing uploaded. Click the box and start typing — the clock starts on your first keystroke, not before.
Click here and start typing — the clock starts on your first keystroke
WPM is your net speed: correct characters divided by five, divided by minutes. Five characters counts as one word because real words vary in length and that is the standard every typing test has used for a century.
Raw WPM is everything you typed, mistakes included. The gap between raw and net is the cost of your errors.
Accuracy is correct keystrokes divided by all keystrokes. We count a mistake at the moment you make it, even if you fix it, because the time you spend fixing it is time you actually lost.
Consistency is how even your speed was across the test. A high score means you held one pace; a low one means you burst and stalled.
What is a good typing test score?
Around 40 words per minute is the typical adult result. 60 to 70 wpm is comfortably fast and past the point where the keyboard slows your thinking down. Above 100 wpm is competitive. If you have never learned to touch type you will probably land somewhere between 25 and 35.
| Words per minute | Who types at this speed | Roughly |
|---|---|---|
| 0–20 | Two-finger hunt and peck, eyes on the keyboard the whole time | Slower than handwriting |
| 25–35 | Most people who never learned to touch type | Below average |
| 40 | The typical adult | Average |
| 50–60 | Someone who types for a living and learned properly | Above average |
| 60–70 | Comfortably fast — the keyboard stops being the bottleneck | Good |
| 70–90 | Fast. Noticeably quicker than everyone in the room | Top few percent |
| 90–110 | Very fast, usually deliberate practice rather than accident | Rare |
| 110+ | Competitive typists | Top fraction of a percent |
Accuracy matters more than the headline number, and the arithmetic is unforgiving: at 95% accuracy you are correcting roughly one word in twenty, and every correction costs you the keystroke, the backspace and the retype. A steady 55 wpm at 98% beats a frantic 75 wpm at 88% in real work almost every time. More on how typing speeds break down by job and age.
How to take the test properly
Sit the way you normally sit
Do not straighten up and put both hands in position if that is not what you do all day. You want a number that reflects your real typing, not your best posture.
Do not correct every mistake
Backspacing to fix a typo costs you three keystrokes and the accuracy is counted at the moment of the error anyway. Push on.
Use 60 seconds for a real reading
15 seconds is fun but noisy — one bad word swings the whole result. A minute is long enough to average out.
Take it three times
Single results vary by five to ten wpm on the same day. Your real speed is roughly the middle of three attempts, not the best one.
Why a test alone will not make you faster
A typing test is a thermometer. It tells you the temperature; it does not change it. If you take one every day for a month your score will barely move, because nothing you do during a test teaches your fingers anything new.
What actually moves the number is repetition of the specific thing you are bad at. That is why this test shows you the keys that cost you at the end — almost everyone discovers their speed is being held back by two or three particular letters, not by general slowness. Once you know which ones, you can drill them.
Two ways to do that from here: structured typing practice if you want drills, or the game if you know from experience that you will not stick with drills.
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Frequently asked questions
How is WPM calculated?
Words per minute is correct characters divided by five, divided by the number of minutes. Five characters counts as one word, including the space, because real words vary in length and a fixed unit makes results comparable. This test reports net WPM, which subtracts your mistakes; raw WPM, which does not, is shown alongside it.
What is a good typing speed?
Around 40 words per minute is typical for an adult. 60 to 70 wpm is comfortably fast and enough for any job that involves writing. Above 100 wpm is competitive territory. People who never learned touch typing usually sit between 25 and 35 wpm.
Is this typing test free?
Yes, completely, with no account and no ads. Your result is calculated in your browser and nothing is sent anywhere. Your best score is stored locally on your own device so you can see it again.
Why does my score change every time I take it?
Single one-minute results vary by five to ten wpm on the same day depending on which words came up, how awake you are and whether you hit an awkward letter pair early. Take the test three times and use the middle result.
Should I fix my mistakes during the test?
Not usually. A correction costs you the wrong keystroke, a backspace and a retype, and the mistake is already counted. Pushing on gives you a more accurate reading of your real speed.
Does typing speed matter?
Up to a point. Going from 30 to 60 wpm is a genuine change in how it feels to write, because at 30 the keyboard is slower than your thinking. Going from 80 to 100 changes very little for most people, because by then you are limited by what you want to say, not by how fast you can type it.