Typing Test

A typing speed test presented as a competitive game. You type the given text, words per minute are measured, and accuracy is weighted into the result — so hammering the keys and correcting afterwards produces a worse score than typing slightly slower and getting it right first time. That weighting is what makes it useful rather than just a number generator. Most people's real typing speed is limited by error correction rather than by finger speed, and a test that exposes this is a better practice tool than one that does not. Short tests mean the feedback loop is tight, and repeated attempts across a week show genuine improvement rather than variance. There is a leaderboard, which supplies the competitive framing, and the text samples vary enough that memorisation is not a shortcut. Tests take under a minute each. It needs a physical keyboard to be meaningful — it will run on a phone and the result will not mean much — and it runs on anything. A practical tool with a score attached, and both halves of that work. The leaderboard is worth a mention because it reframes the activity. A typing drill is a chore and a typing contest is not, and for a lot of people that difference is the one that decides whether the practice actually happens.