The test above runs on the Spanish ISO layout, with ñ, the dead-key accents and the inverted marks in their real positions. Your score counts the keys you actually pressed to get there.
A Spanish ISO board carries one more key than a US board. Spanish uses several keys and key combinations that differ from what a US keyboard typist is used to.
Typepace takes its finger map from that layout. When the results screen names a key that cost you time, it means the key under your finger on a Spanish board, and the drill it offers next is built from Spanish words that contain it.
Typepace reports two speeds and keeps them apart. Raw WPM counts every character you entered. Net WPM counts the characters you got right the first time you reached them. A word means five characters, the standard convention, so these figures compare with tests you have taken elsewhere.
Accuracy follows the same rule. Each position is judged once, when you first arrive at it. Backspace repairs the screen and leaves the record alone, because the skill worth building is pressing the right key rather than fixing the wrong one.
Accented vowels take two presses each, so a Spanish passage costs more keystrokes than its letter count suggests. ñ, ¿ and ¡ sit in positions your English muscle memory has nothing to say about. Expect a first Spanish run to land under your English figure while those reaches are new.
Compare a Spanish run with your earlier Spanish runs. Next to your English figure it mostly tells you which language you have typed more of.
The text is real Spanish throughout. The word list runs in frequency order, the quotations come from Cervantes, Machado and the traditional refranes, and the longer passages were written in Spanish from the start, so the accents fall where a Spanish writer puts them.
No. The test scores the characters that arrive, however your machine produces them. The finger notes assume the Spanish ISO board, so on a US layout read them as advice about the standard board rather than yours.
On a US International layout, AltGr and n gives ñ, and the apostrophe key followed by a gives á. On macOS, Option and n then n gives ñ, and Option and e then a gives á. Holding a vowel down also opens the accent picker.
Yes. An á typed as a plain a is a miss at that position, the same as any other wrong character. Forgetting the dead key costs you the letter, not only the mark.
Sixty seconds places your speed and gives the accented keys more than one appearance. Use thirty to warm up and a hundred and twenty for a figure you can trust.