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Type the sample text and see your WPM and accuracy update live — timer starts with your first key.
WPM (words per minute) is the standard measure: five characters count as one “word”, which is how professional typing tests calculate it. The timer starts the moment you press your first key, so thinking time before you begin is free.
Accuracy compares every character you type against the target text. Both matter — 60 WPM at 85% accuracy means 9 mistakes per 100 characters, which is far worse in real work than 50 WPM at 99%.
| Speed | Level |
|---|---|
| 10–25 WPM | Beginner — hunt and peck |
| 30–40 WPM | Average typist |
| 45–60 WPM | Good — most office jobs |
| 65+ WPM | Fast — professional typist |
Speed grows fastest with daily 10-minute practice. Focus first on accuracy — speed follows automatically once your fingers stop making errors.
The average adult types around 35-40 words per minute with two or more fingers, while trained touch typists reach 60-80 WPM. Professional transcriptionists and competitive typists work at 90-120+ WPM, and the fastest recorded sustained speeds on standard keyboards exceed 200 WPM.
Employers phrase requirements differently: Indian data-entry job posts commonly ask for 8,000-10,000 key depressions per hour (roughly 30-40 WPM of continuous typing), and accuracy expectations are usually 90% or higher. Practise for the accuracy first — every error costs a correction that erases your speed advantage twice over.
Touch typing is the proven method: fingers rest on the home row (ASDF for the left hand, JKL; for the right), each finger owns specific keys, and your eyes never leave the screen. Most people who hunt-and-peck at 30 WPM reach 50-60 WPM within a month of daily 15-minute practice, because the bottleneck is muscle memory, not finger speed.
Use this page daily: pick the hard mode (numbers and punctuation) once the medium paragraph feels comfortable, since real work — coding, emails, forms — is full of symbols. Posture matters too: wrists floating, elbows at roughly 90 degrees, and a rhythm you could hold for an hour beats a sprint you abandon in two minutes.
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