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The Happy Prince
Oscar Wilde, 1888. 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
- 121 words
- Characters
- 666
- At 40 WPM
- 200 s
- Letters per word
- 4.3
- Shift presses
- 17
- Punctuation marks
- 26
666 characters count as 133 exam words, so 40 WPM finishes it in about 200 seconds and 60 WPM in 133. Its words run 4.3 letters long, 64% of its letters need a finger to leave the home row, and it asks for 17 capitals and 26 punctuation marks (commas, periods, hyphens, quotation marks, semicolons, apostrophes, question marks). The longest word is “Councillors”, and the less common letters K, Q, V all appear. Among the 111 texts here it comes out harder than 91 of them and easier than 19 — demanding going, by word length, punctuation and reaches together.
Public domain: The Happy Prince was first published in 1888, 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 #902, source file pinned at SHA-256 77ae1b3c7be7. Project Gutenberg's own header, footer and trademark are not reproduced.
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