How fast can i type per minute

Frequently Asked Questions

Word per minute (WPM) online typing test

This typing test measures your typing speed in words per minute (WPM). Since the length of words is variable, this typing test standardizes the length of each word to be five characters, including spaces and punctuation, and then divides the total amount of characters typed in one minute, characters per minute (CPM), by this word length.

What is the average typing speed?

The average typing speed is 52 wpm (words per minute), which translates into 260 characters per minute. Some advanced typists reach speeds above 120 wpm. On mobile devices, the average typing speed is only 38 wpm, according to an academic typing study with 37,000 participants.

What does CPM mean in typing?

CPM means characters per minute. The “Raw CPM” is the actual number of characters you type per minute, including all mistakes. The “Corrected CPM” only counts correctly typed words, which is the international standard for typing tests.

Why is this online typing test free?

This is a free typing test. As makers of Typewise keyboard app and a text prediction AI writing assistant that allow you to type faster, we want to provide our community of users with a free typing test. This way you can constantly practice typing and improve typing skills. Our test is a free typing test with CPM and WPM scores, and can also be used as a typing speed test for kids to improve their typing skills.

Do kids type faster than adults?

Kids and younger people between 10-19 years old type fastest, followed by those aged 20-39, according to an academic typing study with 37,000 participants. There is also a difference between typing on physical keyboards vs texting on smartphones.

What is the best layout for fast typing?

The most common is the QWERTY layout developed by Christopher Latham Sholes in 1867 for ten digit typing on mechanical typewriters. However, when typing on smartphones with one or two digits, Typewise's hexagonal keyboard enables faster and more accurate typing due to the optimal size and positioning of the keys.

• Restart Test Hotkey

  Keep your hands on the keyboard - use keyboard shortcut "Shift-Return" to restart typing test.

• Live Statistics

  Check your typing speed and accuracy as it is updated and displayed every second while you type.

• Personalize and Save Report

  Report can be personalized with your name and your results can be saved and shared easily using the link generated at the end of every test.

• Custom and interesting text to type

  If you're going to type something, you might as well type something interesting and fun to type.

  Current typing text options include random common English words, random easy words, books, book summaries short stories, fables, sight words for kids, random interesting and funny facts, random wise proverbs, and even the ability to type whatever you want with the custom text option.

  Fables and random sight words are good choices for easy typing texts that work great for younger kids and beginners.

  Custom text can be saved and shared easily using the custom URL generated when new custom text is loaded.

• Dvorak, Colemak, AZERTY, QWERTZ, and Numpad support

  No more messing with the settings on your computer! Support for many popular keyboard layouts makes switching to your favorite as easy as selecting it from the keyboard layout dropdown menu.

  The following keyboard layouts are supported:

  • QWERTY (US and UK)
  • Colemak (US and UK)
  • Dvorak
  • AZERTY
  • QWERTZ
  • Numpad (10-key)

• Multiple entry modes

  Two different entry modes keep the experience fresh and help develop different speed typing skills.

• Text lookahead 100% of the time

  At any point in time both entry modes provide, at a minimum, the next 2-3 words (21 characters to be precise) so you can always be looking ahead at the next words to type - a useful skill in learning to type faster.

• Broad range of test round times

  Why should you always have to take a 1 minute typing test?

  Speed Typing Online provides six different test round times: 30 seconds, 1 minute, 2 minute, 3 minute, 5 minute, and 10 minute typing tests.

• Type what you're typing!

  Tired of having to frantically check back and forth between the text to type and what you're typing?

  Both entry modes combine the two into one, so you are always looking at exactly what you are typing on screen as you do normally, making it easy to refine your natural typing skill.

• Correct Words per minute (WPM) Calculation

  Typing speed is calculated according to the most widely accepted method where a 'word' is assumed an average of 5 characters (spaces included) with every error (per minute) being a 1 WPM deduction. Nearly all other significant statistics are also reported, allowing for a more custom calculation as well.

  All performance calculations are also clearly explained (simply mouse-hover over the labels) making it easy to understand your results.

• Color Highlighting Options

  "High Visibility" mode gives more significant color distinctions - great for those with color blindness or other vision impairments.

  "No Color Highlighting" mode gives a more difficult and realistic experience.

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