Take the one-minute test below, enter your name, and download a certificate with your net words per minute and accuracy. No account, no watermark, no fee — and the number on it is a real, timed result.
Your name as you enter it, your net words per minute, your accuracy, and the date. Net WPM is the standard figure — characters divided by five, per minute, with uncorrected errors subtracted — which is the number employers and course providers mean when they ask for a typing speed. The certificate is a PNG image at print resolution, so it can be attached to an application, printed, or dropped into a portfolio.
It is not an accredited qualification and does not claim to be. What it is: an honest, timed measurement from a test anyone can retake and verify in sixty seconds. For most job applications that is exactly what is being asked for.
One minute is the common request and the default here. If a job advert or course specifies a longer assessment — data-entry and administrative roles often say three or five minutes — take the three-minute or five-minute test instead; both offer the same certificate from their result page. Longer tests read a little lower, and that lower figure is the one an assessor will recognise as realistic.
Students can take the test and download their own certificate without any account, which makes it a simple end-of-unit record for a keyboarding class. If you want the class's results in one place, the free classroom mode keeps a roster on the classroom computer — best speed, accuracy and lessons mastered per student — again without collecting any student data. You can also embed the test itself on a class page.
If the result is not the one you want on paper, the fastest route to a better one is not repetition but targeting: the coach behind the test times every keystroke and will tell you which keys and transitions cost you the most, then write a short drill made of them. A week of fifteen-minute sessions usually moves a one-minute result by five to ten words per minute, mostly by removing errors rather than by moving faster.
When you retake the test, the certificate always shows the run you download it from, never an average or a best-ever figure — so the number you put your name to is one you actually typed, on that day, in one sitting.
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