Real estate typing test

Listing descriptions, addresses, postcodes, square footage and contract lines, timed. Property text is exact in a way prose is not — a wrong character in an address sends someone to the wrong street.

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Why property text is exact text

A listing reads like prose until you look closely: 42 Elm Street, Apartment 3B, a postcode, 1,240 sq ft, three bedrooms, a guide price of 425,000, a completion date. Half of the characters that matter are on the number row or need Shift, and every one has to be right the first time, because it will be copied into a portal, an offer and a contract without anyone re-reading it.

The text here comes from the Real Estate course rather than a general corpus, so it reads like the work: listing copy with measurements and prices, address blocks, offer lines and the plain clauses of a tenancy. Type it exactly as shown, capitals and numbers included.

Reading the result

Property text usually comes in ten to twenty per cent below prose speed because of the number row and the capitals. The map of errors on the result is the part to read. On this kind of text they land on digits — a swapped pair in a postcode, a dropped zero in a price — and on the capitalised parts of an address.

Those are exactly the errors that cost money, so accuracy is the number to care about. A clean run at a modest speed is worth more than a fast one with a wrong digit in the guide price. The result shows where the misses are so you can see whether it is the numbers or the names that cost you.

Practising addresses and prices

The Real Estate course drills addresses, measurements and prices, listing copy and contract lines as separate lessons before mixing them, and the coach builds new practice from the keys and sequences you miss most. If postcodes tripped you, the next set is built from them.

The number row and the capital letters

An address block is a run of capitals and digits with almost no ordinary words: a house number, a street name, a town, a postcode that alternates letters and numbers. A measurement adds a comma and an abbreviation; a price adds a currency symbol and thousands separators. Each pattern is short and each is a place to hesitate until it is automatic.

Contract lines are the other case: long, formal, and full of defined terms with capitals in the middle of a sentence. Shift becomes the key you use most after the space bar, and the shift-load reading on the result tells you whether those characters are the ones costing you time.

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