Fast Typing
Real-time WPM and accuracy on a 200+ poem-excerpt library. Single words, sentences, or whole stanzas. Physical and mobile keyboards
Tip: Accuracy first, speed second. Typing all the right keys at 40 WPM beats hammering 90 WPM with errors.
About Fast Typing
Fast Typing is the WPM-and-accuracy speed game. Type the prompt as fast and as accurately as you can while the timer measures words-per-minute and error rate in real time. The visual feedback is immediate · characters turn green as you nail them, red the moment you mistype · so you can feel your accuracy ticking up or down as you go.
Three difficulty tiers. Easy gives you single common words back-to-back · ideal for warm-up and for younger typists. Medium ships full sentences with normal punctuation · the standard typing-test shape (think typingtest.com or 10fastfingers). Hard ramps to whole stanzas of classical public-domain poetry · long-form text with archaic vocabulary, hard punctuation, and rare letters, which is where real typing endurance shows.
How WPM is calculated. Words per minute uses the universal 5-character word convention: total characters typed (excluding mistakes) divided by 5, divided by elapsed minutes. So 300 correctly-typed characters in 60 seconds is 60 WPM. The standard means a comfortable office typist runs 40-60 WPM, professional transcriptionists hit 80-100, and competitive sprinters break 150.
Mobile and desktop both work. A physical keyboard gives the canonical experience and the highest WPM ceiling. The on-screen virtual keyboard on phones and tablets tracks just as accurately · the WPM number will be lower because thumb-typing is physically slower than 10-finger typing, but the practice still builds the same accuracy habit, and your "mobile WPM" record is worth chasing in its own right.
Part of the PlayMemorize family of brain-training games. Runs entirely in your browser, works offline as a Progressive Web App.
FAQ
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How is WPM calculated?
Words per minute uses the standard 5-character word convention · total characters typed (excluding mistakes) divided by 5, divided by minutes elapsed. So 300 correctly-typed characters in 60 seconds is 60 WPM. Mistakes do not count toward the WPM total · only correctly typed characters. -
What if I make a typo?
The character is marked red. You can backspace to fix it · accuracy tracks the percentage of characters typed correctly on the first try, so an immediate backspace saves the WPM count but the accuracy stays dented. Pure WPM and pure accuracy pull against each other, which is why the game tracks both. -
Why poetry on the hard tier?
Poetry passages cover a wide vocabulary range, vary punctuation in unpredictable ways, and use rare letters and unusual word lengths that don't show up in conversational prose. Typing a Shakespeare sonnet or a Frost stanza tests endurance and breadth where a typing-test paragraph just tests rhythm. They're also short enough to type in a single sprint. -
What WPM should I aim for?
A comfortable office typist runs 40-60 WPM. Professional transcriptionists hit 80-100. Competitive online sprinters break 150 on short prompts. If you regularly hit 30+ WPM on Medium with 95%+ accuracy, you're typing faster than the average adult; if you hit 80+ on Hard with 98%+ accuracy, you're typing faster than most professionals. -
Does it work offline?
Yes. PlayMemorize is a Progressive Web App.