Typing Speed Test

Type a passage as fast and accurately as you can. See your words per minute, accuracy percentage, and errors highlighted in real-time. Track improvement across attempts.

Typing Speed Test

Test your typing speed and accuracy. Type the passage as fast as you can. Tracks WPM, accuracy, and characters per minute.

Difficulty:

0

WPM

100%

Accuracy

0:00

Time

0%

Progress

Type this passage:

The most dangerous phrase in our language is we have always done it this way. Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower. Stay hungry, stay foolish, and keep learning.

How to Test Your Typing Speed

Measure your WPM and accuracy with The IT Hustle's free Typing Speed Test.

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Pick a difficultyChoose Easy, Medium, or Hard — harder passages use longer words, punctuation, and less common vocabulary.
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Start typingThe timer starts on your first keystroke. Type the passage exactly as shown.
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Watch the live feedbackCorrect characters turn green, mistakes are highlighted in red, and your WPM, accuracy, and progress update in real time.
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Review your resultsWhen you finish the passage, see your final WPM, accuracy percentage, and characters per minute.
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Track your improvementYour last 10 attempts are listed with difficulty, so you can watch your speed climb across a practice session.

Frequently Asked Questions

The average is around 40 WPM. 60–70 WPM is solid for professional work, and 80+ WPM puts you in the fast tier. Programmers often score lower on symbol-heavy text, so don't be discouraged by the Hard passages.

Accuracy first: typing slower with fewer errors beats fast-and-sloppy, because corrections cost more time than they save. Practice touch typing without looking at the keyboard, then let speed build naturally over daily 10-minute sessions.

WPM counts words per minute while CPM counts individual characters per minute. CPM is the finer-grained measure — it doesn't depend on how long the passage's words happen to be.

The last 10 attempts are kept only for your current session, in the page itself. Nothing is stored or sent to a server — refresh the page and the history resets.

Typing Speed Test