Typing Speed guide

Goal

Type the passage as quickly and accurately as you can.

How to play

• Pick a mode on the menu first: timed, which runs for a set number of seconds, or word count, which ends once you finish the words.
• Start typing the displayed text; the timer begins on your first keystroke.
• Correct characters advance the passage, and mistakes are marked as you go. Backspace corrects them.
• Punctuation, capitals and numbers are optional, and can each be switched on from the menu.

What WPM means

Words per minute counts a word as five characters, so it measures characters typed rather than English words, which keeps long and short words comparable. Accuracy is reported alongside it because raw speed with a low accuracy is not usable typing.

Scoring

• Your score is words per minute adjusted for accuracy, shown as a percentile against other players.
• Slowing down slightly almost always raises the adjusted score, because corrections cost more time than care does.