Type the passage. 60-second timer starts on your first keystroke.
Click here, then start typing. Backspace fixes mistakes (but a wrong-then-fixed char still hurts accuracy a little).
Typing fast isn’t just finger speed — it’s how quickly your brain converts visual text into motor commands. The motor cortex fires fingers; the language areas (Broca’s, Wernicke’s) decode the words; the cerebellum sequences them. After enough practice, the loop runs without conscious involvement.
Above 80 WPM means typing has gone subconscious for you — your fingers go where the words are without thinking about keys. Useful for writers, coders, support agents, and anyone whose work bottleneck is keyboard speed. 100+ is rare in the general population, common among programmers.
WPM uses the standard definition: characters typed correctly ÷ 5, scaled to per-minute. (A “word” is conventionally 5 characters including the space.) Accuracy is correct keystrokes divided by total keystrokes.