Test and improve your typing speed — type as many words as possible in 60 seconds and track your WPM. A free online typing practice game.
⌨️ Speed Typing
Type each word correctly as fast as you can!
Type as many words as you can in 60 seconds!
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Register Free 🚀About Speed Typing
Speed Typing gives you sixty seconds and a stream of words. Type each one, press space, keep going. Easy uses three-letter words, Medium five-letter and Hard six and seven — the same vocabulary throughout, so what changes is the length of each burst rather than the difficulty of the words.
Accuracy is faster than speed
A typo costs you the word plus the time to fix it, which is almost always more than you gained by rushing. Typists who aim for 95% accuracy at a comfortable pace routinely out-score those who hammer the keys and correct constantly.
The instruction that actually works is counter-intuitive: slow down until the errors stop, then let speed come back on its own. It will, and it will come back higher than where you started.
Look at the screen, not your hands
The single largest gain available to most people is keeping their eyes on the words. Every glance down costs the time to look, find your place again, and re-focus — and it prevents your fingers from ever learning where the keys are.
It feels slower for the first week and then it is permanently faster. If you need a reference point while learning, rest your index fingers on the F and J keys; almost every keyboard has a small raised bump on them for exactly this reason.
What your WPM actually means
Around 40 words per minute is average for someone comfortable with a keyboard. 60 to 70 is a fast office typist. Above 90 is unusual and generally means years of touch typing.
Bear in mind that these are single words with a space between them, not connected prose, so scores here tend to run a little higher than on a passage-based test. Compare your runs against each other rather than against numbers from a different test.
Sixty seconds is the right length
A minute is long enough for a slow start to average out and short enough that concentration does not drift. It is also short enough to play three times while waiting for something, which is how most improvement actually happens.
The word lists repeat as the minute goes on, so part of what improves is not raw finger speed but recognising a word instantly and typing it as one unit instead of six separate letters.
Frequently asked questions
What is a good typing speed?
40 words per minute is a solid everyday speed, 60 to 70 is fast, and above 90 is rare outside people who type professionally. Children and beginners often start around 15 to 20.
Do mistakes count against my score?
Only correctly typed words count toward your total, so an error costs you the word rather than adding a separate penalty. That is why steady accuracy scores better than frantic speed.
Does this work on a phone?
It runs on a phone, but the score will be much lower than on a physical keyboard and the two are not really comparable. For measuring real progress, use a laptop or desktop keyboard.
How often should I practise to improve?
Short and frequent beats long and occasional — a few one-minute runs most days will move your speed faster than an hour once a week, because the gains come from finger habits rather than effort.