Click the words and start typing — the timer starts on your first keystroke. space next word · Esc restart
What a 1-minute score means
Treat your 1-minute result as your ceiling pace — the speed your fingers hold when everything cooperates. It’s the right tool for weekly progress checks (fast feedback, low commitment) and the wrong tool for two jobs: certifying for employment (government specs test five minutes precisely because they’re buying sustained pace) and comparing against someone else’s 3-minute score. Our averages and percentiles are calibrated to general test-taking, so a 1-minute score maps fairly onto the ladder — just compare like with like.
Best-practice for the sprint
Three runs, median counts, same time of day if you’re tracking a trend — single sprints swing with warm-up and word luck. If your 1-minute and 5-minute scores differ by more than ~8 WPM, the gap itself is the finding: your technique holds speed but not endurance yet, and 3–5 minute practice sessions will close it. Longer options: 3-minute test · 5-minute test.