15 second typing test
15 seconds on the clock. It starts when you press the first key.
- Gross WPM
- 0
- Accuracy
- 0%
- Wrong words left in
- 0
- Keystrokes / hour
- 0
- Time
- 0 s
What 15 seconds of typing looks like
- At 30 WPM you type
- 8 words
- At 40 WPM (office average)
- 10 words
- At 60 WPM
- 15 words
- Keystrokes at 40 WPM
- 50
- One wrong word costs
- 4 net WPM
The shortest test worth taking. There is no time to settle, so it measures your burst speed on whatever words happen to come up — repeat it five times and take the middle result rather than the best one. One uncorrected wrong word takes 4 WPM off the net result of a 15 second test, which is why a short test punishes a single mistake so hard.
Other lengths
How the score is worked out
A “word” is five keystrokes, spaces included — the convention typing exams use, so that long and short words count fairly.
- Gross WPM = everything you typed ÷ 5 ÷ minutes.
- Net WPM = gross minus one for every wrong word you left in, per minute. This is the number exams and employers ask for.
- Accuracy = correct keystrokes ÷ all keystrokes. A mistake you went back and fixed no longer costs speed, but it still costs accuracy.
- Keystrokes per hour (KPH) is the same speed in the unit data-entry jobs and some government exams quote.
Keep going
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.
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.