A calm place to begin
If typing still feels like searching for each letter, this page is for you. The words here are short and familiar, all lowercase, with no punctuation or numbers to trip over. You have one minute, and that minute only begins when you press your first key.
There is no pass or fail. The aim of a first session is simply to find out where you are.
What you will see when you finish
After the minute, a result screen shows three things worth your attention:
- Your speed in words per minute. Treat it as a starting line.
- Your accuracy, which matters more than speed at this stage.
- A keyboard map that colours the keys you missed most.
For slower results the main button offers a short lesson instead of a drill. That is on purpose. Lessons build the foundation: where your fingers rest, and which finger reaches for which key.
Accuracy first, speed later
New typists often try to go fast and end up correcting every other word. A better approach is to slow down until almost every key is right. Clean typing becomes quick typing on its own, because your hands stop hesitating. The guide on how to improve typing accuracy goes deeper into this.
A helpful target for now: finish a minute with very few red marks, whatever the speed.
Learning the proper way
Typing without looking, using all ten fingers, is called touch typing. It can feel slower for the first week, then it overtakes whatever method you used before. If the idea is new to you, read touch typing explained, then open the first lesson from the Learn page. Each lesson takes two to five minutes and shows an on-screen keyboard that highlights the next key and the finger to use.
Lessons work best with a physical keyboard. On a phone you can still practise the words on this page.
Keeping track without an account
Your results, lesson progress and streak are stored in this browser. Come back tomorrow and the page remembers you. Finishing a session of thirty seconds or more counts as a streak day, which gives you a small reason to return.
When this page starts to feel comfortable, try the standard 1-minute typing test, which uses a wider range of common words.