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The typing test that made typing tests beautiful — endlessly configurable, instantly readable and quietly addictive.
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Monkeytype sits in Typing Tests under Play, and we have it filed as instant — good within five seconds of loading. It reads as useful, beautiful and competitive.
Typing tests that got beautiful somewhere around 2020. Genuinely the fastest way to improve a skill you use every day and have never practised.
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.
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.