Typing practice built from what you miss

How it works

Every test you take records how long each key takes you and which ones you get wrong. Practice uses that. Each drill is 50 real words, weighted toward your weak letters and the words you've stumbled on before, and mixed with common words so it still reads like normal text and not a wall of qs and zs.

If you're a guest, the drill comes from the tests you've taken on this device. If you're signed in, it draws on your account history instead, so it follows you to any device and gets sharper the more you type. On free accounts, raw keystroke logs are kept for 90 days; after that, only your metrics and summary statistics stay with your account, as the privacy page explains.

Just starting out? With no history yet, you'll get a warm-up of common words. Take a few typing tests and come back. The drills start adapting as soon as there's something to work with.

Hit New drill for a fresh set whenever you like.

Why targeted practice works

Your overall WPM is an average, and averages hide things. You might type most letters quickly and lose half your time on three keys, or on a pair like ou or br. Typing more random text helps a little with everything. Typing more of your weak spots helps a lot with the part that's actually holding you back.

That's why the results screen after each test shows per-key and letter-pair timing. Practice turns that into something you can act on.

A simple routine

1. Take a 1-minute test to see where you are.
2. Do two or three practice drills. Go for accuracy first, not speed.
3. Take the 1-minute test again.

Ten minutes a day like this beats an hour once a week. If you'd like a longer plan, we wrote one for going from 40 to 80 WPM.

How the numbers are calculated

Drills are scored the same way as every test on the site: net WPM counts only fully correct words, and accuracy counts every keypress, including ones you fixed. Every formula is on the scoring methodology page.