One Minute Typing Test

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100%Accuracy

1:00Time left

Curiosity is a quiet engine that keeps running long after the excitement fades away. The city looked different from the rooftop, smaller and stranger than at street level. The train pulled in on time, and for once the platform was almost empty and still. The letters arrived out of order, so the story had to be pieced together backward. He wrote the note by hand and left it on the table where she would find it at dawn. Rain fell softly on the tin roof, and the whole house seemed to slow down with it. She learned to sail on a small lake before she ever set foot on the open sea. Reading a few pages every day adds up to dozens of books over the course of a year.

Click the text and start typing — the timer begins on your first keystroke. Correct letters turn dark, mistakes turn red.

A one minute typing test is the quickest way to check your speed: you get 60 seconds to type the passage, and the test scores your words per minute and accuracy when time is up. The countdown begins on your first keystroke.

Want a steadier average? Choose 2, 3, or 5 minutes below. The passage extends itself, so there is always more text to type.

How it is scored: WPM is your correct characters divided by five (the standard word length), over the minutes you spent typing — so accuracy is baked into the number. Typos count against both your accuracy percentage and your speed. Everything runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded and there is no account to create.

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