Typing Tests

The blunt one-minute word test that has served as the internet's default words-per-minute benchmark for over a decade.

A typing test built from book passages, with detailed statistics on which keys are quietly costing you whole seconds.

Teaches touch typing by generating fake words from the letters you keep fumbling, rather than making you copy out prose.

A clean one-minute test built by a support software company that had a very direct professional interest in typing speed.

The typing test that made typing tests beautiful — endlessly configurable, instantly readable and quietly addictive.

A short typing course with a certificate at the end, oddly motivating for something nobody will ever ask you to show.

Code typing drills across a dozen languages, where the indentation is handled for you and the punctuation certainly is not.

A free course that starts on the home row and builds up, with keyboard layouts for whichever language you actually type in.

Practise typing by working through actual novels, so the warm-up leaves you a few pages of Dostoevsky instead of nonsense.

Races you against real people typing the same passage, which is the only known method of making a typing test tense.

A complete free typing course with lessons, tests and games, the sort of thing schools pay for and this one does not charge.

Typing practice on real open-source code, complete with the brackets and semicolons that ruin everyone's average.

Structured typing lessons with a hand diagram that shows precisely which finger you have been cheating with all along.

A space shooter where you destroy incoming words by typing them, and rising panic is the entire difficulty curve.