Online Typing Test

Want to type without looking at the keyboard? Touch typing is a skill anyone can learn with a little regular practice, whatever their starting speed. In a world that runs on computers, for work, study and everyday communication alike, typing quickly and accurately has gone from a nice-to-have to a genuine necessity. Learning to touch type lets you keep your eyes on the screen and your thoughts on the words, so you type faster, more comfortably and with far less effort.

Welcome to a free online typing test and practice tool built to measure your speed and sharpen your skills. Start with a timed test of one, three, six or nine minutes to see your words per minute and accuracy, then keep going with the modes that suit how you really type. Word Sprint races you through a set number of words, the Text test uses real sentences with capital letters and punctuation, the Number test drills the 10-key, and Typing Race pits you against speed-matched bots. Speed matters, but so does precision: typing quickly is worthless if accuracy suffers, so every test tracks both and shows you exactly which keys and fingers cost you the most. Real progress comes from building muscle memory for common letter pairings and, above all, from keeping your eyes on the screen instead of glancing down at the keys.

The average time to learn touch typing is around 26 hours of practice. The early lessons can feel repetitive, but they are what teach your hands to use all ten fingers rather than the two or three most people fall back on. Give it even an hour a day, practice consistently, and you can expect real, measurable progress within a month.

In the ten-finger method, each finger is responsible for its own set of keys. Instead of hunting and pecking with two or three fingers, you reach every key from the home row while keeping your eyes on the screen. That brings a second benefit: because you are watching the screen rather than your hands, you notice and fix mistakes the moment they happen.

• Never look at the keyboard while you practice. Keep your eyes on the screen.
• You can find the home position without looking: feel for the small bumps on the F and J keys.
• Some words in a test are random rather than real sentences. That is deliberate: it stops you predicting the next word and makes you read and type exactly what is there.
• Test your speed regularly. Our typing tests measure both your words per minute and your accuracy, so retake one whenever you want to see how far you have come.