Choose a 30 or 60 second test, click in the box and start copying the sentences shown above it. The timer starts on your first key press, not when the page loads, so take your time to get comfortable first. Each character turns green when it matches and red when it does not, and new sentences are added automatically if you reach the end before the time runs out.
Speed is shown as net words per minute (WPM). By convention a “word” is any five characters, including spaces, so long and short words are treated fairly. Only characters that are correct in their position count toward your speed, which means rushing and leaving errors behind will not raise your score. Accuracy is the share of all keys you pressed that were right the first time, so a mistake still counts against accuracy even if you go back and fix it. Pasting is disabled.
Someone who types with two fingers and looks at the keys often reaches around 20–35 WPM. Regular computer users who touch type tend to sit somewhere in the 40–60 WPM range, and people who type all day for work can go well beyond that. On a phone keyboard numbers are usually lower. Accuracy matters as much as speed: 45 WPM at 98% accuracy is more useful day to day than 60 WPM with many corrections.
Yes. Tap the box and your on-screen keyboard will open. Autocorrect and auto-capitalisation are turned off for the box where your browser allows it, but some keyboards may still change words, which can count as mistakes.
The test uses ordinary everyday sentences so that you are measuring typing, not spelling of rare words. Each run picks a random order, so you will not see the same text every time.
No. Everything runs in your browser and nothing you type is sent to Beprt.
The live figure is calculated from the time elapsed so far, so it moves a lot in the first few seconds and settles as the test goes on. The final result appears when the timer reaches zero.