⌨️ Typing Speed Test

60 s · WPM · raw WPM · accuracy · the honest 5-char word rule

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The scoreboard uses the conventions actual typing benchmarks defined: a word is five correct characters (the length of average English words on a typewriter counter), net WPM subtracts errors, raw WPM does not, and accuracy is correct ÷ total keystrokes. Words come from a fixed list of common English words — 60 sampled per run, shuffled in the browser, never fetched.

Press Start — 60 common words, 60 seconds.
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Where "words per minute" comes from

Counting words is ambiguous ("ox" vs "antidisestablishmentarianism"), so since the typewriter era speed has been measured in five-character words — the average length of English text as a constant. Your net score is correct keystrokes (including the spaces that complete each word) divided by five, divided by minutes; raw speed counts every keystroke you made. That single convention is what makes 60 WPM here comparable to 60 WPM anywhere else.

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