War and Peace

This text as typing material

Length

168 words

Characters

905

At 40 WPM

272 s

Letters per word

4.2

Shift presses

31

Punctuation marks

36

905 characters count as 181 exam words, so 40 WPM finishes it in about 272 seconds and 60 WPM in 181. Its words run 4.2 letters long, 65% of its letters need a finger to leave the home row, and it asks for 31 capitals and 36 punctuation marks (quotation marks, commas, periods, apostrophes, hyphens, exclamation marks, question marks, semicolons). The longest word is “Antichrist--I”, and the less common letters J, K, V all appear. Among the 111 texts here it comes out harder than 95 of them and easier than 15 — demanding going, by word length, punctuation and reaches together.

Public domain: War and Peace was first published in 1869, 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 #2600, source file pinned at SHA-256 2d5bb2ad5f42. Project Gutenberg's own header, footer and trademark are not reproduced.

Where to go next

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  Anna Karenina

  Same author

• Sinclair Lewis · 1922

  Babbitt

  One step harder

• Charles Dickens · 1861

  Great Expectations

  A gentler one

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• Typing test

  Gross and net WPM, accuracy and keystrokes per hour — the figures typing exams use, at eight lengths from 15 seconds to 15 minutes.

• Typing lessons

  Fifteen short lessons, two new keys at a time, with the keyboard showing which finger goes where.

• Key drills

  A drill for each row, hand, finger and kind of character — and how much of English prose each set of keys actually carries.

• Every key

  One page per key: the finger that owns it, how often it is really pressed, and the letter pairs it lives in.

• Typing speed

  What a speed means in characters, keystrokes per hour and minutes per page — and a test paced to the number you are aiming at.

• Weak keys

  A drill built from the keys you miss most, worked out from your own tests.

• Times tables

  Each table with its patterns, a drill that returns to what you got wrong, and a 60-second speed test.