Typing Dojo measures your typing speed (WPM) and accuracy in real time. Each session gives you a different passage to keep practice fresh and challenging.
Choose from beginner, intermediate, or expert passages. Harder passages contain longer words, technical vocabulary, and more complex sentence structures.
Click into the typing area and start. The timer begins on your first keypress. Each word turns green as you type it correctly, or red if you make an error.
Words per minute is calculated continuously as you type — not just at the end. This gives you a live view of your pace and lets you see if you slow down toward the end of a passage.
Every incorrect character is counted. Your final accuracy score is shown as a percentage. Most typing tests consider 95%+ accuracy to be 'touch typist' level.
After completing the passage, your WPM and accuracy are compared to typing speed benchmarks — from hunt-and-peck to professional typist and beyond.
The average office worker types 40 WPM. Professional typists average 65–75 WPM. A score above 80 WPM with high accuracy puts you in the top tier of typists.
Yes — incorrect words are not counted toward your word count. Typing faster but making more errors will lower your effective WPM.
Daily sessions of 15–20 minutes produce the fastest improvement. Consistency matters more than session length — regular short sessions beat occasional long ones.
Passage difficulty, word length, and timing methodology all affect results. Shorter, more common words are faster to type than technical vocabulary.