# Any sites I can go to for a check on my typing speed?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 6, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sites-i-can-go-to-for-a-check-on-my-typing-speed/267919 "2004-10-06T21:14:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sites-i-can-go-to-for-a-check-on-my-typing-speed/267919/1 "2004-10-06T21:14:34Z")

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Should be a fairly straightforward question.

I’ve been working in my present job for a bit more than a year, and there is heavy keyboarding involved. I had a pretty consistent 35wpm rate a year ago, and now I’m feeling like I’m a great deal faster.

I’d just like to test that hypothesis. Are there any websites that feature a real-time typing test?

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sites-i-can-go-to-for-a-check-on-my-typing-speed/267919/2 "2004-10-06T21:25:51Z")

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You can try a game called “Typer Shark” at [Yahoo](http://games.yahoo.com/). Look under “Arcade and Other Games”. It’s a game, but I think it gives you your WPM also.

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**Author:** ![Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9dc877/32.png) [@Nightwatch\_Trailer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightwatch_Trailer)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sites-i-can-go-to-for-a-check-on-my-typing-speed/267919/3 "2004-10-06T21:37:23Z")

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If you google “typing speed” the first result is a simple online test.

Typer Shark is fun, though. You might get addicted.

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**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sites-i-can-go-to-for-a-check-on-my-typing-speed/267919/4 "2004-10-06T22:16:16Z")

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Many thanks to both of you. I shall try the Google link first, as I already spend a lot of time on Text Twist (my best score for a day is in excess of 150,000).

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**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2004, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-sites-i-can-go-to-for-a-check-on-my-typing-speed/267919/5 "2004-10-06T22:25:51Z")

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I had just been wondering this myself. I went to the Google-linked one and my first attempt times me at 93 wpm net.