White Fang

This text as typing material

Length

140 words

Characters

791

At 40 WPM

237 s

Letters per word

4.5

Shift presses

10

Punctuation marks

20

791 characters count as 158 exam words, so 40 WPM finishes it in about 237 seconds and 60 WPM in 158. Its words run 4.5 letters long, 62% of its letters need a finger to leave the home row, and it asks for 10 capitals and 20 punctuation marks (periods, commas, hyphens). The longest word is “frozen-hearted”, and the less common letters K, V, X, Z all appear. Among the 111 texts here it comes out harder than 26 of them and easier than 84 — gentle going, by word length, punctuation and reaches together.

Public domain: White Fang was first published in 1906, 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 #910, source file pinned at SHA-256 3c7226d00fd9. Project Gutenberg's own header, footer and trademark are not reproduced.

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  The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

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