Practice texts·gentle going
Peter Pan
J. M. Barrie, 1911. 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
- 139 words
- Characters
- 709
- At 40 WPM
- 213 s
- Letters per word
- 3.9
- Shift presses
- 15
- Punctuation marks
- 23
709 characters count as 142 exam words, so 40 WPM finishes it in about 213 seconds and 60 WPM in 142. Its words run 3.9 letters long, 65% of its letters need a finger to leave the home row, and it asks for 15 capitals and 23 punctuation marks (commas, periods, quotation marks, apostrophes, exclamation marks). The longest word is “delightful”, and the less common letters J, K, V, X all appear. Among the 111 texts here it comes out harder than 34 of them and easier than 76 — gentle going, by word length, punctuation and reaches together.
Public domain: Peter Pan was first published in 1911, 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 #16, source file pinned at SHA-256 6b08714281fe. Project Gutenberg's own header, footer and trademark are not reproduced.
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