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2-Minute Typing Test

Two minutes begins to reveal stamina. Typists who score well at 1 minute often drop 5–10 WPM by the 2-minute mark as concentration wavers. This test is ideal for office workers who type long documents and want a realistic measure of their working speed.

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Live Results on This Test

35
median WPM
60
WPM — top 10%
97.7%
average accuracy
5,093
tests — last 90 days

Computed from real completed tests on this exact format over the last 90 days. Score above 35 WPM and you're faster than half the people who take this test.

How to Get the Most from This Test

Two Minutes: the First Test Your Sprint Speed Can't Pass For You

Every duration up to one minute can be gamed by adrenaline. Two minutes is the first length where that stops working. Around the 70–90 second mark, the initial surge of concentration fades and whatever is underneath — trained technique or improvised effort — takes over the run. A typical typist loses 5–15% of their 1-minute speed here; a typist with genuinely automatic technique loses almost nothing. That makes this test less a speed measurement and more a consistency filter: it tells you whether your headline number is a performance or a property.

It is also the most informative length per unit of effort for diagnosing where speed leaks out. At 50 WPM you will produce about 100 words — roughly 500 characters — which is enough text for your personal problem patterns (a weak pinky reach, a bigram you always fumble, a tendency to tense up after a correction) to appear two or three times each. One attempt, reviewed honestly, usually identifies a specific fixable fault.

Score interpretation matters more here than the raw number. Because errors accumulate over 120 seconds, judge yourself on net WPM rather than gross output. And if your two-minute pace holds within a few words of your one-minute pace, you are ready to step up to the 3-minute test, where professional benchmarks begin.

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