Typing speed practice

Speed is a by-product of accuracy. Practise the right things, in the right order, for fifteen minutes a day, and the words-per-minute number moves on its own — usually within two to four weeks.

Everything here is free and none of it needs an account, though a guest session keeps your best speeds and your heatmap so you can see the trend.

1. Warm up, 2 minutes. Type a familiar passage at a pace you can hold cleanly.
2. Accuracy first, 5 minutes. Slow down until mistakes stop; corrections cost more than slow typing does.
3. Weakest keys, 4 minutes. Drill the keys the heatmap says you miss — that is where the free speed is.
4. Speed burst, 2 minutes. One all-out run, then stop before your form collapses.
5. Cool down, 2 minutes. Easy typing again, and write down the number.

Four or five of these a week beats a two-hour session on Sunday.

Lessons with targets. 31 lessons, each with a speed and accuracy floor to pass — the floor stops you advancing on a fast but sloppy run.

Free practice. 2836 passages across four difficulties, from easy prose to code and punctuation, for practising content rather than technique.

Weak-key heatmap. Per-key accuracy, so the drill targets the keys you actually miss instead of the ones you already know.

Races. A countdown and a grid full of people is the best speed burst there is — see the typing race or race alone against the clock.

Take the free typing test once a week, on the same difficulty, and compare averages rather than single runs — one lucky passage means very little. Then look yourself up on the leaderboard, which ranks average race speed rather than one good day.