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What a 3-minute score means
Three minutes is where sprint inflation fades: expect your result here to run a few WPM below your 1-minute score and within a couple of WPM of your true working pace. That makes it the right length for honest self-assessment, for pre-employment practice (close to the 5-minute certification format without the full grind), and for the “is my number good” question — our number pages’ verdicts assume exactly this kind of sustained score.
Reading the result
Check your score against the percentile ladder and the verdict pages — and if you’re testing for a job, do one thing differently: run the 5-minute version once too, because that’s the length the certification specs use, and knowing your 5-minute number before a screening test removes the surprise.