Typing Practice — Accuracy First, Without a Clock
Speed follows accuracy, not the other way round. A typist who trains against a clock learns to type fast and wrong, then spends the same time correcting that they saved by hurrying. A typist who trains for accuracy first gets slow, correct typing that speeds up on its own as the movements become automatic. This page is built for the first stage of that, which is why it has no timer.
Forty words, longer than the ones in the speed test, worked through at whatever pace suits you. The elapsed time is displayed because it is useful information, but nothing ends when it reaches a particular number and there is no target to beat. The number to watch is accuracy, in the corner, updating word by word.
The vocabulary is deliberately harder than a speed test. Seven and eight letter words, awkward letter pairs, words that cross the hands repeatedly, and a handful that reach for the keys most people are weakest on — q, z, x, and the stretch to the top row. These are the words that expose which finger is doing the wrong job. A test built from the hundred most common short words will never surface that, because those words are almost entirely home-row and index-finger work.
As with any typing test, a space commits the word and you move on. The input box turns red the instant what you have typed stops matching, which gives you the option to correct before committing — take it. Getting into the habit of noticing the mistake at the keystroke rather than at the end of the line is most of what accuracy training actually is.
At the end you get your accuracy, your correct word count, and the full list with mistyped words struck through so you can see the pattern in what you miss. Then run the sixty-second typing test to check what your speed does once accuracy is solid. Both are free, need no account, and run entirely in your browser.
How to play Typing Practice
- Press "Start set" to begin. There is no countdown and no time limit.
- Type the highlighted word and press space to move to the next one.
- Watch the input box: it turns red the moment your text stops matching the word, so you can fix it before committing.
- Work through all forty words at a pace where you are getting them right, not fast.
- Check your accuracy and the struck-through words at the end to see which letters keep catching you out.