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Custom Typing Test

Paste or type any passage and practise it. Your text stays in this browser - it is never uploaded, logged or sent to another service.

Between 60 and 20,000 characters.
Matching rules

Custom text practice

Time
0 Net WPM
0 Raw WPM
100% Accuracy
0:00 Elapsed
0 Correct
0 Incorrect
0 Errors left
0% Progress
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The timer starts on your first keystroke. Press Escape to pause where pausing is allowed. Pasting is disabled.

  • abc Correct
  • abc Incorrect (wavy underline)
  • abc Corrected (dotted underline)
  • abc Missed (struck through)

Underlined keys are the home row. Use the opposite hand for Shift where you can. QWERTY layout.

You can practise on a phone or tablet, but a physical keyboard gives a far more accurate WPM measurement. On-screen keyboards add their own delay.

What custom practice is good for

  • Rehearsing the exact vocabulary of your job: product names, addresses, medical or legal terms.
  • Drilling a single awkward sentence until the movement stops feeling deliberate.
  • Practising in another language, provided your keyboard can produce the characters.
  • Retyping your own writing, which is a surprisingly effective proofreading technique.

Note: curly quotes, em dashes and other characters most keyboards cannot produce are converted to their plain equivalents automatically, so you are never asked for a key you do not have.