One minute, no account, no advertising in the typing area. You get a speed, an accuracy figure, and — unlike most tests — an explanation of where the time actually went.
A typing test gives you two numbers and most sites only show you one of them. The first is speed: how many words you produced in the time available. The second is accuracy: how many of those words were right the first time you typed them. Speed without accuracy is not a typing skill, it is a guess delivered quickly.
Typepace reports both, side by side, and keeps them apart on purpose. Raw WPM counts every character you entered. Net WPM counts only the characters that were correct on the first attempt. The distance between those two numbers is the cost of your errors, expressed in the same unit as your speed, and it is the single most useful figure on the results screen.
A typist at 70 raw and 68 net is in control. A typist at 70 raw and 52 net is not typing at 70 — they are typing at 52 and spending the difference on repairs they may not have noticed making.
Nothing is stored against you unless you make an account, and the test area itself carries no advertising — a moving banner beside text you are trying to read is a measurement problem, not just an annoyance.
This surprises people often enough that it is worth stating plainly: if you have tested on other sites, expect a figure five to fifteen words per minute lower here. That gap is not modesty and it is not a bug.
Two things cause it. First, net WPM is reported as the headline rather than raw, so errors are subtracted rather than absorbed. Second, a backspace repairs the text on screen but never repairs the record — the position was wrong when you first reached it, and it stays wrong in the statistics.
Both choices are deliberate. The habit worth building is hitting the right key, not noticing quickly that you hit the wrong one, and a metric that forgives repairs will report improvement while the underlying error rate stays exactly where it was.
The results screen shows speed across the run word by word, so you can see where the rhythm broke rather than only what it averaged out to. Below that, the coach names the specific key or letter pair that cost you the most time and says why — an adjacent-key confusion and a same-finger reach look identical in an error count and want opposite fixes.
If you take more than a handful of tests, the analysis gets sharper: per-key and per-digraph error rates are compared against your own baseline and shrunk toward population priors in proportion to how thin the evidence is, so one unlucky word never gets reported as a weakness.
Yes, entirely. There is no paid tier, no trial, and no feature held back behind an account. Signing in only saves your history across devices.
No. The test runs and reports without one. An account exists so your progress, weak keys and streak follow you between a phone and a laptop.
Sixty seconds is the standard and the most comparable figure between sites. Anything under thirty seconds is dominated by which words you happened to get. Two to four minutes measures stamina, which drops for most people well before their peak speed does.
Around 40 words per minute is the figure most commonly cited as an adult average. Comfortable touch typists usually sit between 50 and 70, and professional typists above that. Accuracy matters more than any of those numbers: 50 WPM at 98% is a more useful skill than 70 WPM at 90%.
It runs, and the layout adapts, but a touch keyboard measures a different skill than a physical one. Treat a mobile result as its own baseline rather than comparing it with a desktop score.