Typing test

Most typing tests give you a random passage, which means your score is partly a report on how lucky you were with the words. Here everyone gets the same passage on the same day, so two people's numbers are actually about the two people. It resets every twenty-four hours.

No signup, no account. When you finish you get a link that opens the same passage for whoever you send it to and puts you both on one leaderboard.

Going ten percent faster is worth nothing if it costs you five percent of your characters, and at speed the correction is what actually eats the time. The bands above are for orientation rather than judgement — most people who type all day land in the second one and stay there.

• A "word" is five characters. The standard convention, and the only one that lets two people compare numbers at all.
• Only correct characters count. Accuracy is not a separate penalty, it is already inside the score, which is why there is no way to game this by typing fast nonsense.
• A missed character shifts everything after it. Harsh, and deliberate: it is what every serious typing test does, because the alternative rewards sloppiness a reader would not forgive.
• The server scores it, not your browser. What gets submitted is the raw text and the key timings; the result is recomputed against the server's own copy of the passage.