Typing Speed Test: WPM and Accuracy

How it works

The clock starts with your first keystroke and stops when time runs out. Each character you type is compared with the text in the same position: correct ones turn green, mistakes turn red. Only correct characters count toward your speed, and accuracy is correct characters divided by everything you typed. Pasting is blocked.

WPM = (correct characters ÷ 5) ÷ minutes · CPM = correct characters ÷ minutes

WPM, CPM and why Chinese, Japanese and Korean use CPM

• WPM (words per minute) treats every 5 characters, spaces included, as one word, so results compare fairly across texts with long or short words.
• CPM (characters per minute) counts characters directly. Chinese, Japanese and Korean text has no spaces between words and packs a syllable or word into one character, so these pages report CPM.
• CPM here counts finished characters on screen (a Hangul syllable or a kanji counts as one), not keystrokes, so it is lower than scores based on keystrokes.

Tips

• Aim for accuracy first; speed follows. Errors cost more time than they save.
• Keep your eyes on the text, not the keyboard, and rest your fingers on the home row.
• Do several 60-second runs; the longer test gives the most stable number.

Standards and sources

• UI Events — keyboard and composition events · W3C
• Unicode Standard Annex #29 — text segmentation · Unicode

Last reviewed October 15, 2026