Typing speed test
Measure your words per minute and accuracy — then see how far ahead of your fingers your internet connection really is.
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Fingers versus fibre, in numbers
A typing speed and a line speed are both measured in “stuff per second”, which makes them comparable — and the comparison is absurd. At 60 WPM you produce five characters a second. Treating each character as one byte, that is 40 bits per second.
An entry-level 25 Mbps fibre line moves 25 million bits per second: roughly 625 000 times faster than you. On a 1 Gbps line the gap is 25 million to one. Put another way, one second of a 100 Mbps download is about 12.5 million characters — close to a month of typing without sleeping, eating or making a mistake.
This is worth knowing the next time something feels slow. Human-facing tasks — typing, clicking, reading — are limited by you, not by the line. When a page genuinely crawls, the culprit is usually latency, Wi-Fi, or the provider, not a shortage of megabits. How we measure →
Measure the other half
The comparison above needs a download figure from your own line.
Frequently asked questions
- How is words per minute (WPM) calculated?
- A 'word' is standardised as five characters, including spaces. We count only the characters you typed correctly, divide by five, then divide by the minutes elapsed. That is net WPM, the figure most typing tests report. Raw WPM, which counts every keystroke whether right or wrong, is shown alongside it.
- What is a good typing speed?
- Most adults type between 35 and 45 WPM. Around 55 to 65 WPM is comfortably quick, 75 WPM and up is fast, and professional typists and programmers often sit above 100 WPM. Accuracy matters more than raw pace: a 70 WPM run at 90% accuracy scores lower than a steady 60 WPM at 99%.
- How does my typing speed compare to my internet speed?
- It does not, and that is the point. Typing at 60 WPM produces about 5 characters a second, or roughly 40 bits per second. A 100 Mbps fibre line moves 100 million bits per second — about two and a half million times more. One second of that download would take you nearly a month of non-stop typing to produce by hand.
- Can I take the typing test on my phone?
- You can, but the score will not mean much. Typing speed is measured against a physical keyboard, and thumb-typing on glass puts almost everyone far below their true rate, so a phone result says more about the keyboard than about you. The test is worth returning to on a desktop or a tablet with a keyboard attached. The speed test, reflex game and ISP quiz are all designed for touch.
- Does the typing test affect my speed test result?
- No. The two run at completely separate times. The speed test saturates your connection with parallel transfers and needs the browser's full attention, so nothing interactive runs alongside it. The typing test reads the download figure from your last completed run, which is stored only in your own browser.
- Is my typing result stored anywhere?
- Only in your own browser. Your personal best per duration is kept in localStorage on your device and is never sent to a server, the same as your speed-test history.