Ledger entries, invoice lines, amounts with two decimals and the prose that explains them, timed. Finance typing alternates between the letters and the number row, and this test measures exactly that mix.
A general typing test is made of ordinary words, and the number row hardly appears. Accounting text is different in kind: account names sit next to amounts like 12,480.00, a reference such as INV-2041 sits in the middle of a sentence, and a comma, a decimal point and a currency symbol each need their own key. Every move from the letters to the number row and back costs a fraction of a second, and finance text asks for that move several times a line.
The text in this test is drawn from the Finance & Accounting course rather than from a general corpus, so the mix is honest: journal narratives, invoice lines, month-end commentary and the odd percentage. Type it exactly as shown, including the punctuation inside the amounts.
Expect a gap of ten to twenty-five per cent below your prose speed; the number row is the reason, not your hands. What matters more is where the errors land. The result marks each miss on the text itself, and on a finance test the pattern is usually one of three: a transposed pair of digits, a decimal point typed as a comma, or a capital in an account code that came out lower-case.
Accuracy deserves more attention than speed here. A wrong digit in a journal entry is not a typo to the person reconciling the account — it is a difference that has to be found. A clean run at a modest speed is worth more than a fast one with two silent errors in the amounts.
The Finance & Accounting course drills amounts, dates and reference codes separately before mixing them back into full entries, and the coach on the practice pages builds new lines around the keys and sequences you miss most. If the test showed digit swaps, the next practice set will be built from digits. The course page explains what each lesson covers.
An amount like 3,250.75 is five digits, a comma and a period — seven keystrokes across two rows with no letters to rest on. Dates in the 2026-03-31 form add hyphens; reference codes such as PO-88213 mix capitals, a hyphen and digits. Each of these is a small pattern that becomes automatic with repetition, and until it does, each is a place where your eyes leave the screen to find a key.
Percentages and the currency symbol are the last piece: both live on the shifted number row, so a line with a margin of 18.5% and a total in dollars asks for Shift twice more than the same line in prose would. The result page tells you how heavy that shift load was, so you can see whether it is the digits or the symbols that cost you.