Sixty seconds of real prose, timed from your first keystroke. You get net WPM, accuracy and a rhythm score — and the test itself never asks for an account.
One minute is the standard length for a typing test, and for a reason: it is long enough that a lucky burst of speed on the first few words stops mattering, and short enough that fatigue and attention drift do not yet creep in. The number you get at the end is close to your sustainable speed on ordinary text — the speed you would actually type an email at.
The figure shown is net words per minute. A word is counted as five characters including spaces, so the calculation is characters typed divided by five, divided by minutes elapsed, with uncorrected errors subtracted. That last step is why two people who type equally fast can get very different results: the one who leaves mistakes in the text is charged for every one of them.
Most adults who use a keyboard daily but never learned to touch type land between 35 and 45 WPM on a one-minute test. Around 60 WPM, typing stops being the slow part of most desk work. Above 80 is genuinely fast, and past 100 you are in the range of transcriptionists and competitive typists.
Accuracy matters more than the headline number. A result of 55 WPM at 98% accuracy is better than 65 WPM at 90%, because the second typist is spending part of every minute going back to fix things — and that cost is invisible until you look at where the time went. If your accuracy is under 95%, the fastest way to raise your WPM is, counter-intuitively, to slow down slightly until the errors disappear.
Every keystroke is timed against the one before it, not just counted. When the minute is up, the coach can tell you which specific keys and which transitions between keys are costing you the most — the letter your ring finger reaches late, the pair of keys you keep swapping. Then it writes practice text built out of exactly those.
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Use the one-minute test to check in — it is quick enough to run every day and see the trend. Switch to the three-minute or five-minute versions when you want a number you would put on a CV, or when you suspect your speed drops off over longer stretches. Longer tests almost always read a little lower, and that lower number is the more honest one.