120 WPM
One minute, with 120 as the target. The live counter shows both your speed and the number you are chasing.
- Gross WPM
- 0
- Accuracy
- 0%
- Wrong words left in
- 0
- Keystrokes / hour
- 0
- Time
- 0 s
120 WPM in other units
- Characters / minute
- 600
- Keystrokes / hour
- 36,000
- Characters / second
- 10
- Words / hour
- 7,200
- Where it sits
- Very fast
120 words a minute means 600 keystrokes a minute, because a word is defined as five keystrokes — so it is 200% above the 40 WPM usually quoted for office work, and 6.0× handwriting speed. Top few percent. You are racing yourself now.
On this site that speed gets through 12 of the 111 practice texts inside a minute. The text closest to exactly one minute at this pace is The Red Badge of Courage, at 121 exam words.
How long things take at 120 WPM
| Words | Time at 120 WPM | Keystrokes |
|---|---|---|
| 100 | 50 s | 500 |
| 250 | 2 min 5 s | 1,250 |
| 500 | 4 min 10 s | 2,500 |
| 750 | 6 min 15 s | 3,750 |
| 1,000 | 8 min 20 s | 5,000 |
| 1,500 | 12 min 30 s | 7,500 |
| 2,000 | 16 min 40 s | 10,000 |
| 3,000 | 25 min | 15,000 |
| 5,000 | 41 min 40 s | 25,000 |
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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.
Practice texts
Type a passage from a classic book: real sentences, capitals and punctuation, with the numbers that say how hard each one is.
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.
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.