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On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin, 1859. Type the passage exactly as written — capitals and punctuation count.
- Gross WPM
- 0
- Accuracy
- 0%
- Wrong words left in
- 0
- Keystrokes / hour
- 0
- Time
- 0 s
This text as typing material
- Length
- 150 words
- Characters
- 879
- At 40 WPM
- 264 s
- Letters per word
- 4.8
- Shift presses
- 7
- Punctuation marks
- 17
879 characters count as 176 exam words, so 40 WPM finishes it in about 264 seconds and 60 WPM in 176. Its words run 4.8 letters long, 68% of its letters need a finger to leave the home row, and it asks for 7 capitals and 17 punctuation marks (hyphens, commas, periods). The longest word is “parent-species”, and the less common letters K, V, X all appear. Among the 111 texts here it comes out harder than 37 of them and easier than 73 — ordinary going, by word length, punctuation and reaches together.
Public domain: On the Origin of Species was first published in 1859, and everything published in the United States before 1930 is in the public domain there. The passage is cut by script from Project Gutenberg ebook #1228, source file pinned at SHA-256 ededa9c0bf87. Project Gutenberg's own header, footer and trademark are not reproduced.
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