Di test wey dey up there dey run for di same keyboard wey English dey use. No account, no money. Di score dey count only di keys wey you hammer correct di first time.
Every character for Naijá text na plain ASCII. No accent, no dead key, no letter wey American keyboard no get. If you fit type English, your hand don already sabi every key wey dis page go ask for.
Na so e be for English, Malay, Swahili and Indonesian too, so e no be say Naijá special for dat one. Wetin different na wetin dey repeat.
So di work no dey for your fingers, e dey for your eyes. You go dey read words wey look like English but no be English, and na dat one dey slow person down first.
For most language for dis site, di pair list na two letters wey dey follow each other: th, er, re for English, ng for Indonesian. For Naijá, all eight for di top na complete words. Na, di, dey, wey, don, sef, sha, abi.
English list get five word for im top eight; Naijá get eight. No other Latin-letter language for dis site reach eight.
Dat one make sense when you look wetin dem be. Dey dey mark say something dey happen now, wey dey join clause together, na dey point am. Dem be di joints of di language, so dem dey come back plenty: for di word list and di proverbs, di eight of dem na 30 out of 323 words, wey be 9.3%.
So if you drill dem eight, you don drill di part wey your hand go type pass everything else.
Naijá never get one spelling wey everybody gree for. Naijá Langwej Akedemi bring harmonised system for 2009 and people still dey write am different for WhatsApp, for X, for book.
So di text for here pick one way and hold am. Dey no be de. Wey no be we. Don no be done, even as di word come from English done, because writers dey change di spelling on purpose so person go sabi say na Pidgin dem dey write, no be English.
Dat mean say if you write am another way wey correct for road, di counter go still mark am wrong. No be say your spelling bad. Na say di test dey compare character to character, and e no fit sabi say two spelling na di same word.
Expect five to fifteen less than wetin other site dey give you. Two decision cause am.
Typepace dey show net, no be gross. Gross dey count everything wey you type; net dey count only wetin correct di first time. Di gap between dem na di price of your mistake, for di same unit as your speed.
And correction no dey buy back anything. When you press backspace comot, dat position don already receive im judgement for di moment wey you pass am. Naijá words no long, 4.36 characters on average for dis list, so mistake dey land near di end and e dey tempt person to go back.
Di word list and di proverbs na Naijá from di start. Di list follow how people really dey talk, e no be English list wey dem translate; di proverbs na Naija proverbs, and di rest na lines wey we mark Anonymous because nobody sabi who first talk am.
Di long text and di office text work di opposite way, and e better make we talk am plain: na di same passage for every language for dis site, carry come Naijá with im figures and dates fixed. Na on purpose. Person wey type di same text for Naijá and for English dey compare im own two try, no be two kind text.
One thing to sabi about dat: because dem carry di long text come, small English function word still dey inside am. Di word list and di proverbs no get dem at all, and na from dose two we count di figures for dis page.
No. Naijá dey use di same letters as English, so whatever keyboard you dey type English with go do di work. Nothing to download and no layout to switch.
E go count wrong, and no be say your spelling bad. Naijá never get one agreed orthography, so plenty spelling dey correct for road. But di test dey check character by character against di text wey dey screen, and e no fit sabi say two spelling na di same word. Follow wetin dey front of you.
No. Out of di 169 words for di list, na 58 you go still find for di English list, wey mean say two out of three no dey there. And di grammar words wey you dey type pass — dey, wey, na — no dey work like any English word. Dat na why di drill dey feel different even when di keyboard be di same.
Times am by five. Dem dey count one word as five characters by convention, and di number for screen dey follow di same convention, so 40 mean 200 characters per minute and 60 mean 300. Di wpm wey you see na English short form, di measurement na di same.
For measuring e make sense, for practice e no reach. E go tell you where you dey now and which key dey chop your time. To move go ten finger, di lesson part of dis site arrange di steps from di home row, and you fit use dis test in between to see whether anything don move.